From Venus to Antarctica : the life of Dumont D'Urville / John Dunmore
- Bib ID:
- 4268890
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Dunmore, John, 1923-
- Online Version:
- Table of contents only
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- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- Auckland, N.Z. : Exisle Pub., 2007
- 252 p., [8] p. of plates : ill., maps, ports. ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
- 9780908988716
- Summary:
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This provides the first-ever full-length English language biography of D'Urville - one of nineteenth-century's greatest explorers. Hobart was a base and Durville made the single greatest contribution to perfecting the map of the Pacific.
- Full contents:
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- Machine derived contents note: Prologue: How It All Ended 7
- 1 The Boy from Conde-sur-Noireau: May 1790-October 1807 9
- 2 A Struggling Young Sailor: November 1807-February 1819 15
- 3 The Armless Venus: March 1819-August 1821 22
- 4 Around the World at Last: January 1822-March 1825 29
- 5 Interlude Ashore: April 1825-June 1826 56
- 6 Gibraltar to New Zealand: June 1826-January 1827 62
- 7 New Zealand: January-April 1827 69
- 8 From Tonga to Amboina: April-September 1827 82
- 9 From Amboina to Toulon: September 1827-March 1829 105
- 10 Troubled Times: April 1829-July 1830 116
- 11 Taking a King into Exile: July-September 1830 121
- 12 Life in Paris: September 1830-June 1835 129
- 13 Dumont D'Urville, Novelist: 1835-36 136
- 14 The Great Plan: January-August 1837 146
- 15 Into the Frozen Seas: September 1837-April 1838 156
- 16 The Welcoming Pacific: May-September 1838 169
- 17 From Samoa to the East Indies: October 1838-February 1839 182
- 18 Around Eastern Waters to Tasmania: March-December 1839 195
- 19 Into the Antarctic to Terre Adelie: January-May 1840 207
- 20 Home from New Zealand: May 1840-February 1841 218
- 21 The Curtain Falls: February 1841-May 1842 225
- Epilogue: A Verdict 233
- D'Urville Commemorated 236
- Notes 237
- Select Bibliography 243
- Index 248
- MAPS
- The route of the Chevrette to the Aegean Sea 23
- The first voyage in the Coquille 28
- The route of the Astrolabe through French Pass (1827) and of
- James Cook to D'Urville Island (1770) 70
- D'Urville's voyage to the Pacific, 1826-29 84
- D'Urville's first encounter with Antarctica, 1838 164
- D'Urville's circumnavigation, 1837-40 184
- D'Urville's routes around New Zealand 212.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Also Titled:
- Life of Dumont D'Urville
- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2093 [Creator Date of Death + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 2023
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2007
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