Name: Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration) (en Inglés)
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Author: Dillon, Peter
ISBN: 9781108083348

portada Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration) (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Peter Dillon

Editorial

Cambridge University Press

Año

2017

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

446

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

21.6 x 14.0 x 2.5 cm

Peso

0.56 kg.

ISBN13

9781108083348

Categorías

Europa
Islas del pacífico y del atlántico
Biografías
Historia de europa
Viajes y vacaciones

Narrative and Successful Result of a Voyage in the South Seas: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration) (en Inglés)

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Entrepreneurial, spirited and ambitious, Peter Dillon (1788-1847) spent much of his life as a trader and adventurer in the Pacific region and learnt several Pacific languages. In 1826-7, through contacts in the Santa Cruz Islands, Dillon located the wrecks of La Perouse's Pacific expedition, unaccounted for since 1788. This later earned him a knighthood and annuity from the French government. (La Perouse's despatches and La Billardière's account of an earlier search for the wrecks are also reissued) In this two-volume 1829 publication, translated into French and Dutch the following year, Dillon tells the story of his sensational discovery. After an ethnographical account of Tonga, largely borrowed from William Mariner's 1818 description (also reissued), Volume 2 gives fascinating details of Dillon's enquiries (through multiple interpreters) into La Perouse's fate, and how he negotiated to acquire 'relics' including a ship's bell, parts of weapons and machinery, and even pieces of china.