Melbourne University 7/1/2006 Paperback or Softback New in New jacket Francois Peron (Paperback or Softback)

ISBN10: 0522852602, ISBN13: 9780522852608, [publisher: Carlton South: Miegunyah Press, 2006.] Hardcover Octavo,349 pp.,illustrations, fine copy in dustwrapper, scarce. In 1800 François Pà ron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army, gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. As his colleagues either deserted or died, he would rise rapidly within the expedition's ranks and even write its official account. In doing so, Pà ron would seek to destroy Baudin's posthumous reputation. The expedition was famously marked by the vexed relationship between Pà ron and Baudin, but Pà ron's work, as a man of science, profoundly enhanced the achievements of the expedition: he seized valuable opportunities to pioneer zoological, oceanographic and ethnographic studies, and as an ecological observer was remarkably prescient. Edward Duyker's meticulously researched biography of Pà ron takes readers on an engaging and wide-ranging journey-from the heart of pre-revolutionary rural France, to the bitter fighting on the Rhineland front in 1793-94, to the late eighteenth-century Paris medical school, to landfalls in the Atlantic and the Indian Oceans, to the little-known shores of Van Diemen's Land and New Holland, and back into the very heart of Napoleon's Empire. This is both a balanced assessment of the difficult relationship between Pà ron and ...
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ISBN10: 0522852602, ISBN13: 9780522852608, [publisher: Melbourne University Publishing] Hardcover New
[Redhill, SURRE, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]

ISBN10: 0522852602, ISBN13: 9780522852608, [publisher: MELBOURNE UNIV PR] Hardcover &Uumlber den AutorDr Edward Duyker comes from a family deeply steeped in the sea. He is the author of many books dealing with early Australian coastal exploration, including An Officer of the Blue (1994), Nature s Argonaut (1998), the a.
[Greven, Germany] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 0522852602, ISBN13: 9780522852608, [publisher: Melbourne University Publishing] Hardcover
[Columbia, MD, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2007]
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ISBN10: 0522852602, ISBN13: 9780522852608, [publisher: The Miegunyah Press, Australia] Hardcover First Edition First edition first impression 2006 fine hardback in a near fine dust wrapper. Protected by clear removable archival covering. Owner's inscription crossed out with black felt tip pen. 349 pages with index. Botanical Index. Zoological Index. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Number 75 in the Second Numbered Series of the Miegunyah Volumes.
[Perth, WA, Australia] [Publication Year: 2006]
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Paperback / softback. New. In 1800 Francois Peron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revolutionary army, gained a place as an assistant zoologist on Nicolas Baudin's expedition to Australian waters. This biography of Peron gives an assessment of the difficult relationship between Peron and Baudin. ISBN 0522852602 9780522852608 [GB]