Histoire Generale des Voyages

by Dumont D Urville, Jules-sebasian-cesar; D Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines; Eyries, Jean Baptiste Benoit; Jacobs, Alfred

• ISBN13: 9781108039093
• ISBN10: 110803909X
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-11-24
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the adventures and discoveries of recent French explorers. In Volumes 1 and 2 the naval officer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) presents a lightly fictionalised account based on his first two voyages to the Pacific on board the Coquille (renamed L'Astrolabe for the second voyage). This was intended for a wider audience and offered at a more affordable price than the large-format scientific expedition reports produced for the French government. The work, illustrated with engravings, was originally published in 1832, but the printings by Furne reissued here date from 1863 and 1859 respectively. Volume 2 describes the voyage from French Polynesia back to France via Australia, New Zealand and Cape Horn. It includes d'Urville's discovery of the location in the Solomon Islands where the explorer Jean-Francois La Pérouse's ships had mysteriously disappeared in 1788.

Table of Contents

Toulon. Iles Baléares

Côtes d'Espagne. Gibraltar

Tarifa. Tanger. Madÿre

Iles Canaries

Sénégambie et Sénégal

Iles du Cap-Vert. Passage de la Ligne. Ile de la Trinité

Rio-Janeiro. Ile de Tristan d'Acunha

Cap de Bonne-Espérance

Ile de France

Ile Bourbon

Ile de Madagascar

Archipel des Seychelles. Iles Maldives

Ile de Ceylan

Presqu'Óle de l'Inde. Pondichéry

Possessions anglaises. Madras

Coringui. Yanaoun. Jaggernaut

Calcutta

Calcutta. Religion indienne

Compagnie anglaise des Indes

Histoire naturelle de l'Hindoustan

Sumatra [no 22]

Poulo-Penang. Malacca. Sincapour

Royaume de Siam. Banckock

Banckock. Histoire et géographie du royaume de Siam

Cochinchine. Poulo-Condor. Saigong

Cochinchine. Touranne. Hué

Cochinchine. Histoire et géographie

Philippines. Manille

Luàon. Courses dans l'ile. Province d'Ilocos. Lac de la Lagune

Philippines. Histoire depuis la conquàte

Philippines. Géographie

Chine. Macao

Chine. Route de Macao à Canton

Chine. Canton. Les trois villes

Chine. Canton. Le Houpou. Les Hanistes

Chine. Ses rapports avec les Européens. Missionnaires. Ambassades

Chine. Histoire naturelle, gouvernement, religion, moeurs, lois, littérature, sciences, arts

Départ de Canton. Formose. Liou-Tcheou

Liou-Tcheou. Histoire, géographie et moeurs

Japon. Nangasaki

Japon. Yedo

Japon. Relations des européens avec cet empire. Missionnaires. Christianisme au Japon. Ambassades

Japon. Résumé général. Géographie. Histoire. Lois, moeurs, sciences, arts, industrie, commerce. Religion

Traversée du Japon aux Óles Hawaii (vulgairement Sandwich)

Iles Hawaii. Oahou

Ile d'Hawaii. Hawaii

Excursion au volcan de Kirau-Ea

Fin du séjour à Hawaii

Description générale des Óles Hawaii

Histoire des Óles Hawaii

Population, moeurs, coutumes, religion

Traversée des Óles Hawaii à Nouka-Hiva. Séjour à Nouka-Hiva

Nouka-Hiva. Géographie. Habitants et productions

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