Storms and Dreams

by Dunmore, John

• ISBN13: 9781602230002
• ISBN10: 1602230005
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2007-08-15
• Publisher: Univ of Alaska Pr

Summary

Witty, charming, and fiercely intelligent, Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (17291811) managed, in the course of a long life, to play a part in nearly every facet of eighteenth-century life and culture.Storms and Dreamsis a lively, authoritative recounting of Bougainville's adventures and achievements, which ranged from seamanship and soldiering to mathematics and navigation. Dunmore follows Bougainville from the French and Indian War, during which he commanded a unit in the defense of Quebec City, to his circumnavigation of the globe in 1766. During that trip, he became one of the first Westerners to visit Tahiti; on his return, he published a book about the island that contributed greatly to Tahiti's lasting reputation as a paradise of noble savages. In his last years, Bougainville served in the senate under Napoleon and was made a member of the Legion of Honor. The first biography of Bougainville in English,Storms and Dreamsopens a window to a remarkable eighteenth-century lifeand to the greater world of the Enlightenment.

Author Biography

John Dunmore is professor emeritus of French at Massey University, New Zealand and has written more than twenty books on French navigation in the Pacific.

Table of Contents

The Early Years

War in Canada

Creating a Colony

Sailing around the World

War and Revolution

Appendix: Bougainville Commemorated

Notes

Select Bibliography

Index

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