| Histoire Generale Des Voyages Par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyries Et A. Jacobs - Volume 4 Contributor(s): Dumont d'Urville, Jules-S Bastien-C Sar (Author), D'Orbigny, Alcide Dessalines (Author), Eyri?'s, Jean Baptiste Benoit (Author) |
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ISBN: 110803912X ISBN-13: 9781108039123 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $76.94 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: French Published: November 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | World - General |
| Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration |
| Physical Information: 1.51" H x 6.69" W x 9.61" (2.62 lbs) 760 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the work of recent French explorers for a readership avid for accounts of exotic foreign lands. Volume 4 was prepared by Alfred Jacobs (1802-62), an archivist and palaeographer, drawing heavily on an 1839 publication by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyri s (1767-1846). Eyri s was a founder member of the French Geographical Society and a member of the Asiatic Society, trained in botany and mineralogy, an accomplished linguist and seasoned traveller, who wrote, edited and translated a substantial number of works on geography, travel and exploration. Like earlier volumes in Furne's collection, this account of Asia and Africa takes the form of a fictionalised journey, making use of a wide range of additional sources to give readers as complete a picture as possible. This 1859 edition is illustrated with twenty-two engravings. |
