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Title: | Discovery and Empire: the French in the South Seas |
Authors: | West-Sooby ,John |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | University of Adelaide Press |
Abstract: | The French connection with the South Seas stretches back at least as far as the voyage of Binot Paulmier de Gonneville (1503-1505), who believed he had discovered the fabled great south land after being blown off course during a storm near the Cape of Good Hope. (...) It was not until the eighteenth century, however, that France began sending mariners to the southern oceans on a regular basis, and by that time a new maritime power had begun to emerge: Great Britain. Together, these two nations would play a decisive role in determining the configuration of these little known parts of the globe, and particularly of the Pacific, which had for so long been the almost exclusive preserve of Spain. |
link: | http://www.oapen.org/record/560094 |
Keywords: | History;john west-sooby rance age of the enlightenment john gascoigne abbé paulmier’s mémoires french voyages terra australis margaret sankey bougainville baudin jean fornasiero senses french explorers british explorers aboriginal people australia shino konishi spanish perceptions french perceptions british colony port jackson animal histories baudin expedition stephanie pfennigwerth freycinet oceania nicole starbuck imperialism pacific ocean penal colony south seas jacqueline dutton |
ISBN: | 9781922064523 |
Theme: | 教科書-歷史地理類 |
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