Histoire generale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyries et A. Jacobs

Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville,Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny,Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyries,Alfred Jacobs

Histoire generale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyries et A. Jacobs
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
24 November 2011
Pages
760
ISBN
9781108039123

Histoire generale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyries et A. Jacobs

Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville,Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny,Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyries,Alfred Jacobs

This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the work of recent French explorers for a readership avid for accounts of exotic foreign lands. Volume 4 was prepared by Alfred Jacobs (1802-62), an archivist and palaeographer, drawing heavily on an 1839 publication by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyries (1767-1846). Eyries was a founder member of the French Geographical Society and a member of the Asiatic Society, trained in botany and mineralogy, an accomplished linguist and seasoned traveller, who wrote, edited and translated a substantial number of works on geography, travel and exploration. Like earlier volumes in Furne’s collection, this account of Asia and Africa takes the form of a fictionalised journey, making use of a wide range of additional sources to give readers as complete a picture as possible. This 1859 edition is illustrated with twenty-two engravings.

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