Histoire gnrale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny... - 9781108039123

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: 9781108039123, 978-1108039123\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 4 was prepared by Alfred Jacobs [tel], an archivist and palaeographer, drawing heavily on an 1839 publication by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyris [tel]. Eyris 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 explora.