Voyage de decouverte aux Terres Australes by Francois Peron, 1807, translated by Sir William Dixson...
Voyage de decouverte aux Terres Australes by Francois Peron, 1807, translated by Sir William Dixson in 1946
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1807, translated in 1946
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DLWD 88 (Vol. 1) , DLWD 89 (Vol. 2)
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2 volumes of textual material - manuscript, typescript
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DLWD 88 Peron's voyage de decouvertes aux Terres Australes. Vol. 1 (part) Translated 11/11/46
'This translation starts at Book 2, and does not include any of the purely scientific matters' (Sir William Dixson)
Commences at Chapter 5, p. 63, and continues to Chapter 18
An account based on Peron's personal journals. Contains an often detaile...
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Voyage de decouverte aux Terres Australes by Francois Peron, 1807, translated by Sir William Dixson in 1946
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Vol. 2 is bound. Spine title: Voyage to the southern hemisphere
Original published in Paris in 1807
The volumes from which the translation was made are filed in the Dixson Library at Q81/11-12
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Information transferred from Dixson Manuscript Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2011-2012.
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Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
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Francois Peron, French naturalist, was born in 1775. After service in the army, he studied medicine, geology and comparative anatomy. In October 1800, he sailed as a naturalist in La Geographe on Baudin's expedition to the South Seas. The compilation of the narrative part of the voyage and the description of the natural history specimens, which he...
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DLWD 88 (Vol. 1) , DLWD 89 (Vol. 2)
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1bGdQPMY
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