ISBN10: 0908988532, ISBN13: 9780908988532, [publisher: Exisle Publishing] Hardcover Moderate foxing to edges. Otherwise fine.
[Port Kembla, NSW, Australia] [Publication Year: 2006]

ISBN10: 0908988532, ISBN13: 9780908988532, [publisher: Exisle, Auckland] Hardcover Sub-titled "The l;ife of Jean-Francois De La Perouse" this study focuses on the French equivalent to James Cook in early Pacific navigation and exploration. The author, John Dunmore, is an acknowledge authority on La Perouse and "Where Fate Beckons" is one of more that 20 books he has written on early French expeditions to tthe Pacific and his contribution to the subject has been recognised and honoured by French authorities. Like Cook, La Perouse was an officer in his country's navy and this two-ship mission sailed from France in July 1785. But the venture got off to a slow start with the ships having to anchor offshore, for three weeks, waiting for a favourable wind to cross the Atlantic. Rounding Cape Horn to begin his Pacific voyage of discovery Perouse called at a Chilean port before visiting the Hawiian group after calling at Easter Island. The expedition ships were the Astrolabe and Boussale, both sturdy ex-store ships of about 450 tons and iideal for provisioning for a mission expected to take severl years. After the Hawaii visit the two ships sailed north east to the Alaskan coast (then Spanish territory) then south charting the coastline as far Monteray (California). By this stage of the voyage the scientists, and experts in many fields, were conducting their investigations, observations and collection of specimens. From the North American coast the ex ...

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