Histoire generale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyries et A. Jacobs

di Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville (Autore)

Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny (Autore)

Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyries (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2011

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 Eyries (1767-1846). Eyries 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.

• Autore: Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville, Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyries
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Collana: Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
• Anno: 2011
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 760 p.
• Dimensioni: 244 x 170 mm
• Peso: 1190 gr.
• EAN: 9781108039123

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