Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath by Edward Duyker

Dumont d'Urville: Explorer & Polymath

Edward Duyker

664 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction autobiography biography historical travel adventurous reflective slow-paced
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Explorer Jules-S bastien-C sar Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) is sometimes called France's Captain Cook. Born less than a year after the beginning of the French Revolution, he lived through turbulent times. He was an erudite polymath: a maritime exp...

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