Miegunyah Press 2006 Hard cover New. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 426 p. Contains: Illustrations.

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

ISBN10: 0522852602, ISBN13: 9780522852608, [publisher: Melbourne University 7/1/2006] Softcover Francois Peron 1.95
[Grand Rapids, MI, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2006]
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ISBN10: 0522852602, ISBN13: 9780522852608, [publisher: Melbourne University Publishing] Hardcover
[Castle Donington, DERBY, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2007]
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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: The Miegunyah Press. Melbourne. .] Hardcover First Edition 1st edition, No. 75 in the Second series of the Miegunyah Volumes. XXIV, 350 PP with 3 maps, plus 16 pages with 24 b/w and colour illustrations. Hard cover, dj. A fine copy and scarce in this condition. 24.3 x 16.0. Naturalist with the Nicolas Baudin expedition to Australian waters 1801.
[CYGNET, TAS, Australia] [Publication Year: 2006]
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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 Bau ...
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