Bücher von Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont D'Urville

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This four-volume collection showcasing discoveries by French explorers appeared in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. The first two volumes contain Dumont d'Urville's lightly fictionalised, illustrated, popular account of his voyages, originally published in 1832. Volume 1 covers d'Urville's travels through Asia to French Polynesia, and reproduces the 1863 printing.

French explorer, botanist and ethnographer J. Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) discovered new Antarctic territory and shed light on customs in Pacific islands during a three-year expedition begun in 1837. In Volume 1, published in 1841, d'Urville recounts the perils of the journey from France to the Strait of Magellan.