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Looking for La Perouse : D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 1792-1793
Looking for La Perouse D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific 17921793 Author:Frank Horner In the third year of the French Revolution the National Assembly sent the d'Entrecasteaux expedition to the Pacific to search for the missing explorer La Prouse. Like the nation itself the expedition was divided by politics; there were both republicans and monarchists aboard. The archives of the expedition, which include a wealth of candid and... more » amusing private journals, reveal how d'Entrecasteaux, despite tensions that strained personal friendships, commanded enough respect to keep the expedition operational. Though it found no trace of La Prouse it made valuable discoveries in geography, botany and anthropology.« less