An account in two volumes of two voyages to the South Seas by Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Jules S-C Dumont d'Urville of the French Navy to Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, 1826-1829 in the corvette Astrolabe and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand, and Torres Strait, 1837-1840 in the corvettes Astrolabe and Zélée

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An account in two volumes of two voyages to the South Seas by Captain (later Rear-Admiral) Jules S-C Dumont d'Urville of the French Navy to Australia, New Zealand, Oceania, 1826-1829 in the corvette Astrolabe and to the Straits of Magellan, Chile, Oceania, South East Asia, Australia, Antarctica, New Zealand, and Torres Strait, 1837-1840 in the corvettes Astrolabe and Zélée

translated from the French and edited by Helen Rosenman

University of Hawaii Press, 1988, c1987

  • : set
  • v. 1
  • v. 2

Other Title

Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée

Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe

Two voyages to the South Seas

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Note

Vol. 1. Astrolabe, 1826-1829 -- v. 2. Astrolabe and Zélée, 1837-1840

Translation of selections from the author's Voyage au pole sud et dans l'Océanie sur les corvettes l'Astrolabe et la Zélée and Voyage de la corvette l'Astrolabe

Originally published: Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1987

Bibliography: p. 617-621

Includes index

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Rear-Admiral Dumont d'Urville, the French James Cook, was a brilliant sailor who made two great scientific and exploratory voyages to the Pacific and the Antarctic.

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