Discovery and empire : the French in the South Seas / edited by John West-Sooby. [electronic resourc...
Discovery and empire : the French in the South Seas / edited by John West-Sooby. [electronic resource]
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Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, 2013.
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BOOK
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English
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1 online resource (xiii, 282 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
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text
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computer
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online resource
Contents
Introduction / John West-Sooby -- Note on the Second Frank Horner Lecture / John West-Sooby -- 1. The globe encompassed : France and Pacific convergences in the Age of the Enlightenment / John Gascoigne -- 2. The Abbé Paulmier's Mémoires and early French voyages in search of Terra Australias / Mar...
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Adelaide : The University of Adelaide Press, 2013.
Date Published
2013.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
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Summary
It was not until the eighteenth century that France began sending mariners to the southern oceans on a regular basis, and by that time a new maritime power had begun to emerge: Great Britain. Together, these two nations would play a decisive role in determining the configuration of these little known parts of the globe, and particularly of the Paci...
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Discovery and empire : the French in the South Seas / edited by John West-Sooby. [electronic resource]
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BOOK
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).
Includes bibliographical references.
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Also issued in print.
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English
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Print version: 9781922064530
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74VKaz0LA4zX
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKaz0LA4zX
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990
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991024402514002626
