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STORMS AND DREAMS
Louis de Bougainville: Soldier, Explorer, Statesman
- By John Dunmore -
Illustrated with Photographs
ISBN: 0733314589
Publisher: ABC Books, London, UK
Published: 2005
Binding: HARDcover with Dustjacket 296 pages
Condition: UNread & displayed condition! HERE in MELBOURNE! A retired display
copy as illustrated!
Edition: FIRST Australian EDITION: 1st printing 2005
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Remains UNread - it was the display copy instore . It is Tight - neat, no inscriptions or marks within. Appears as in my photos - this is the exact copy!! A nicely preserved copy - superb!
No discernible shelf wear, the interior is tight and spotlessly clean with 296 pages. THIS copy is the FIRST Australian EDITION: First printing from 2005 - the Australian publishing by ABC Books, Sydney, NSW.
There are many black and white photographic plates & map illustrations.
SCARCE title - this is an UNread copy!!
In original green cloth boards HARDcover binding, in publisher's glossy pictorial dustjacket which are in excellent, new condition.
(Stored with 2021!)
Measures approx. 9¾ x 6¾ inches or 25 x 17cms
SYNOPSIS ....
Witty, charming, and fiercely intelligent, Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729–1811) managed, in the course of a long life, to play a part in nearly every facet of eighteenth-century life and culture. Storms and Dreams is a lively, authoritative recounting of Bougainville's adventures and achievements, which ranged from seamanship and soldiering to mathematics and navigation. Dunmore follows Bougainville from the French and Indian War, during which he commanded a unit in the defense of Quebec City, to his circumnavigation of the globe in 1766. During that trip, he became one of the first Westerners to visit Tahiti; on his return, he published a book about the island that contributed greatly to Tahiti's lasting reputation as a paradise of noble savages. In his last years, Bougainville served in the senate under Napoleon and was made a member of the Legion of Honor.
The first biography of Bougainville in English, Storms and Dreams opens a window to a remarkable eighteenth-century life—and to the greater world of the Enlightenment.
A biography of Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville: Napoleonic senator, soldier, sailor, navigator and mathematician, who circumnavigated the globe between 1766 and 1769 and who participated in some of the defining moments in world history: the birth of the United States, the French Revolution and more.
Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729-1811) is best known for his circumnavigation of the globe from 1766 to 1769. Throughout a long and distinguished life however, he participated in many of the turning points of world history: the birth of the United States, the fall of French Canada, the opening of the Pacific, the French Revolution and the Revolutionary Wars, the crowning of Napoleon and the modernisation of France. Bougainville was also a witty and charming courtier, becoming one of Napoleon's senators. A true Man of the Enlightenment, he was gifted in navigation, seamanship, soldiering, mathematics, longitude and latitude - many of the arts that made his age one of most productive and creative in modern history. John Dunmore, a distinguished historian and an expert in French Pacific exploration, brings the man and his era to life in this vivid and elegantly written biography.
About the Author
John Dunmore is professor emeritus of French at Massey University, New Zealand and has written more than twenty books on French navigation in the Pacific.
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Very interesting read! ... This is a somewhat detailed and very interesting biography of a brilliant and determined man living in the Age of Enlightenment. Mr. Dunmore's writing is characterized by a high level of craft and exemplifies his extensive knowledge of 18th century French navigation and exploration in the Pacific Ocean. I strongly recommend this book to anyone with an interest in history and biography. I come away from this reading with a much greater understanding and appreciation of Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville, a man of his and our century.
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