Captain Louis De Freycinet and His Voyages to the Terres Australes
Year: 2010 Language: English Author: Hordern House Genre: History Format: PDF Quality: eBook Pages count: 169 Description: An important collection of printed and original manuscript and pictorial material relating to the two great French expeditions to Australia, the 1800 voyage under Captain Nicolas Baudin and the 1817 voyage of Captain Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet. Louis de Freycinet is the figure who unites these two important voyages: he sailed with Baudin as a junior officer, quickly establishing himself as one of the great hydrographers, but also learning the demands of scientific exploration on the remote coastlines of Australia.
Contents
Introduction I. The voyage of the Géographe and the Naturaliste under Nicolas Baudin (1800-1804) Brief history of the voyage a. Baudin and Flinders: the official narratives 1-3 b. The voyage, its people and its narrative 4-29 c. Freycinet’s Australian cartography 30-37 d. Images, chiefly by Nicolas Petit 38-50 II. The voyage of the Uranie under Louis de Freycinet (1817-1820) Brief history of the voyage a. Freycinet and King: the official narratives 51-54 b. Preparations and the voyage 55-70 c. Freycinet constructs the narrative 71-78 d. Images of the voyage and the artist Arago’s narrative 79-92 Appendix 1: The main characters Appendix 2: The ships Appendix 3: Publishing details of the Baudin account Appendix 4: Publishing details of the Freycinet account References Index
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Captain Louis De Freycinet and His Voyages to the Terres Australes
Language: English
Author: Hordern House
Genre: History
Format: PDF
Quality: eBook
Pages count: 169
Description: An important collection of printed and original manuscript and pictorial material relating to the two great French expeditions to Australia, the 1800 voyage under Captain Nicolas Baudin and the 1817 voyage of Captain Louis-Claude de Saulces de Freycinet. Louis de Freycinet is the figure who unites these two important voyages: he sailed with Baudin as a junior officer, quickly establishing himself as one of the great hydrographers, but also learning the demands of scientific exploration on the remote coastlines of Australia.
Contents
IntroductionI. The voyage of the Géographe and the Naturaliste under Nicolas Baudin (1800-1804)
Brief history of the voyage
a. Baudin and Flinders: the official narratives 1-3
b. The voyage, its people and its narrative 4-29
c. Freycinet’s Australian cartography 30-37
d. Images, chiefly by Nicolas Petit 38-50
II. The voyage of the Uranie under Louis de Freycinet (1817-1820)
Brief history of the voyage
a. Freycinet and King: the official narratives 51-54
b. Preparations and the voyage 55-70
c. Freycinet constructs the narrative 71-78
d. Images of the voyage and the artist Arago’s narrative 79-92
Appendix 1: The main characters
Appendix 2: The ships
Appendix 3: Publishing details of the Baudin account
Appendix 4: Publishing details of the Freycinet account
References
Index
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