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Author : John Dunmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Discoveries in geography
ISBN : UOM:39015008190160
Author : John Dunmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Explorers
ISBN : OCLC:175119476
Author : John Dunmore
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2010-01-20
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781458779632
French explorer and naval officer Jean-Franois de la Prouse (1741 - 88) was, after James Cook, the greatest explorer of the Pacific in the eighteenth century. In 1785, La Perouse was commissioned by Louis XVI to head an expedition into the uncharted regions of the Pacific Ocean. Setting out from France, the expedition over the next three years was the first to map the coasts of California, Alaska, and Siberia. From there, La Prouse continued to Easter Island and Hawaii, where La Prouse Bay bears his name. After a stop in Botany Bay, Australia, La Prouse's two ships set out for the Solomon Islands. En route, they encountered a storm and were sunk; despite search efforts over the centuries, no trace of the wreckage of La Prouse's ships has been found. Where Fate Beckons tells the story of La Prouse's life and adventures, along the way providing a lively introduction to the world of French colonialism, the end of the Age of Exploration, and French society in the years leading to the French Revolution.
Author : Annick Foucrier
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351889360
In The French in the Pacific World Annick Foucrier has brought together an important set of studies on the French presence in the Pacific up to the start of the 20th century. The volume opens with a section on the context of the French expansion, including its rivalries with other European powers. Following studies treat patterns of trade and exchange, and settlement and migration, then look at the French image of and reaction to the worlds round the Pacific and the people of the islands, covering the period from the voyages of exploration to the era of colonization.
Author : John Dunmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008190178
Author : John Dunmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Explorers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013750018
Author : John Dunmore
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Explorers
ISBN : STANFORD:36105013750075
"The story of French exploration in Pacific waters has never been told in full. To reach back to the origins of French interest in the Mer du Sud, the author has made use of unpublished material from French national archives, records of trading concerns, reports from privateers, logbooks of old and forgotten explorers. This work is planned to present a complete panorama of French voyages of exploration from the closing years of the seventeenth to the middle of the nineteenth century. The first volume takes the story from the origins to the end of the eighteenth century ... second volume will continue it from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the 1840's when exploration gives way to political activities ..." -- Inside front cover, Volume I.
Author : Rod Edmond
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1997-11-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521550543
This book examines how the South Pacific was represented by explorers, missionaries, travellers, writers, and artists between 1767 and 1914 by drawing on history, literature, art history, and anthropology. Edmond engages with colonial texts and postcolonial theory, criticising both for their failure to acknowledge the historical specificity of colonial discourses and cultural encounters, and for continuing to see indigenous cultures in essentially passive or reactive terms. The book offers a detailed and grounded 'reading back' of these colonial discourses into the metropolitan centres which gave rise to them, while resisting the idea that all representations of other cultures are merely self-representations. Among its themes are the persistent myth-making around the figure of Cook, the western obsession with Polynesian sexuality, tattooing, cannibalism, and leprosy, and the Pacific as a theatre for adventure and as a setting for Europe's displaced fears of its own cultural extinction.
Author : E. W. Nuffield
Publisher : Surrey, B.C. : Hancock House
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015021978088
The discovery and early exploration by sea, land, and river of the Pacific Northwest. The great Fraser and Columbia river systems were and are the key to the Pacific Northwest. The race for early dominance over these rich fur-bearing routes pitted American sea captain Robert Gray against British navigator John Meares and land-and-river explorer David Thompson from Canada. Also chronicled in these pages are the extraordinary Lewis and Clark expeditions, the unbelievable continental trek of the Overlanders, the intimate stories of intrepid explorers Simon Fraser, Alexander Mackenzie - and many more.
Author : John West-Sooby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : France
ISBN : 192206453X
The French connection with the South Seas stretches back at least as far as the voyage of Binot Paulmier de Gonneville (1503-1505), who believed he had discovered the fabled great south land after being blown off course during a storm near the Cape of Good Hope. The story of his voyage remained largely forgotten for over 150 years, but eventually resurfaced in 1664 thanks to the publication by the Abbe Jean Paulmier of a document in which he argued, on the basis of this supposed discovery, for the establishment of a Christian mission in this "third part" of the world. While historians today contest the authenticity of various aspects of the Abbe Paulmier's Memoires, there is no doubt about the impact it had in France, both on the collective imagination and, more concretely, on French plans for exploration and colonial expansion. It was not until the eighteenth century, however, 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 Pacific, which had for so long been the almost exclusive preserve of Spain.' (From the Introduction by John West-Sooby.) DISCOVERY AND EMPIRE is a collection of essays originating out of a symposium that was held at the State Library of South Australia on 8 July 2009. The symposium formed one of the strands of the XVIIth Biennial Conference of the Australasian Association of European Historians (6-9 July 2009), the overall theme for which was 'Europe's Expansions and Contractions'.
Author : Mike Lee (Politician)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2024-07-02
Category : Explorers
ISBN : OCLC:1374330672
"Weaving together geography, natural philosophy and human history, this book tells - often in their own words - of the exploration of the great French naturalist-voyagers, their scientific hunger to discover new lands and document their people, plants, animals and minerals, their relationships with Maori and the desire of France to compete with the British in the Pacific. "--Publisher's description.
Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1993-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0824815580
For some, Tahiti, New Caledonia and Wallis and Futuna are idyllic tropical islands with a French flavour, while for others they represent continuing French colonialism, thwarted independence movements and nuclear-testing. This book looks at the realities of the French territories in Oceania, and the former Franco-British condominium of the New Hebrides (now Vanuatu), as well as changing French policy in the region. This study is based on published sources as well as archival material and interviews, and is a sequel to the highly praised The French Presence in the South Pacific, 1842-1940.
Author : Harold Faber
Publisher : Marshall Cavendish
Page : 84 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0761416080
Biography of Samuel de Champlain, called "the father of New France," the explorer of the country now known as Canada.
Author : Kenneth Morgan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781350154780
In this comprehensive study, Kenneth Morgan provides an authoritative account of European exploration and discovery in Australia. The book presents a detailed chronological overview of European interests in the Australian continent, from initial speculations about the 'Great Southern Land' to the major hydrographic expeditions of the 19th century. In particular, he analyses the early crossings of the Dutch in the 17th century, the exploits of English 'buccaneer adventurer' William Dampier, the famous voyages of James Cook and Matthew Flinders, and the little-known French annexation of Australia in 1772. Introducing new findings and drawing on the latest in historiographical research, this book situates developments in navigation, nautical astronomy and cartography within the broader contexts of imperial, colonial, and maritime history.
Author : Robert Aldrich
Publisher : Springer
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781349090846
An examination of France's presence in the South Pacific after the takeover of Tahiti. It places the South Pacific in the context of overall French expansion and current theories of colonialism and imperialism and evaluates the French impact on Oceania.