Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
23.5 x 15.5cms 341pp b/w illusts very good+ paperback & cover Drawing on a range of archival sources the essays in this book offer fresh perspectives on Baudin's scientific voyages their work & its legacy.
Language: English
Published by Wakefield Press, Adelaide, 2016
ISBN 10: 1743054270 ISBN 13: 9781743054277
Seller: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australia
No Jacket. 26.5 x 21.5cms 176pp colour illusts. The chapters are: reconstructing the Baudin expedition; the Baudin expedition gloray disgrace & redemption; Napoleon's France; first encounters; the French in Port Jackson; charting & naming the Australia coast; Tasmanian fauna a zoological legacy; reading the work of Charles-Alexander Lesueur & Nicolas-Martin Petit; the art of cultural exchange from La Havre to Lutruwita.