A Voyage Round the World, Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766-1769

A Voyage Round the World, Performed by Order of His Most Christian Majesty, in the Years 1766-1769 PDF Author: Louis de Bougainville
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108031870
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 545

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Book Description
This is an English translation from 1772 of the famous Voyage Autour du Monde (1771) by Louis de Bougainville (1729-1811), French admiral and explorer. Describing de Bougainville's adventures on the voyage, it includes graphic descriptions of the discomforts and perils of sea voyages in the eighteenth century.