Histoire générale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyriès … Volume 3
Histoire gnrale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyris et A. JacobsAuthor(s): Jules-Sbastien-Csar Dumont d'Urville, Alcide Dessalines d'Orbigny, Jean Baptiste Benoit Eyris, Alfred Jacobs\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108039116, 978-1108039116\nSynopsis\nThis 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 3 is an updated version of an 1841 publication by the influential French palaeontologist Alcide d'Orbigny [tel], who between 1826 and 1833 travelled around South America collecting natural history specimens for the Paris Museum. The scientific publications resulting from this fieldwork were greatly admired by Charles Darwin. This lightly fictionalised account of d'Orbigny's travels, illustrated with engravings, was suppl.
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