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  • What Have the French Ever Done For Us?
    John West-Sooby
    What have the French done for the cultural life of Australia, and more globally? That is the question addressed by the essays in this volume, penned by eminent experts in their fields. The notion that France is synonymous with ’culture’ seems deeply entrenched in our collective imaginary. But what does that really mean? By shining a light on a range of French cultural phenomena...
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  • ’Roaming Freely Throughout the Universe’
    Jean Fornasiero / John West-Sooby
    The Age of Exploration not only paved the way for European conquest and trade, it also widened the horizons of science. By the second half of the eighteenth century, the link between travel and science was so widely acknowledged that it had become routine practice to include naturalists in all major voyages of exploration.The need to study natural phenomena in situ might seem s...
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    44,72 €

  • Encountering Terra Australis
    Jean Fornasiero / John West-Sooby / Peter Monteath
    Encountering Terra Australis traces the parallel lives and voyages of the explorers Flinders and Baudin, as they travelled to Australia and explored the coastline of mainland Australia and Tasmania. Unusually, the book takes its lead from the voyages of Baudin, rather than Flinders, providing a rather different interpretation than those presently circulating. Furthermore the au...
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    55,42 €

  • Discovery and Empire
    John West-Sooby
    '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 ...
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    49,71 €