An edition of France Australe
(1982)
France Australe
the French search for the Southland and subsequent explorations and plans to found a penal colony and strategic base in south western Australia 1503-1826
by Leslie Ronald Marchant
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France Australe: the French search for the Southland and subsequent explorations and plans to found a penal colony and strategic base in south western Australia 1503-1826
1998, Scott Four Colour Print
in English
0958848718 9780958848718
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France australe : a study of French explorations and attempts to found a penal colony and strategic base in south western Australia, 1503-1826
1982, Artlook Books
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0864451040 9780864451040
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Table of Contents
Machine generated contents note: PART I
The Ancient Regime and western Australia
Chapter 1: France and the early search for a route to the Indies down to Paulmier de Gonneville's voyage from 1503 to 1505.
Chapter 2: French exploration, intellectual curiosity and utopian literature about Australia from Gonneville's return in 1505 down to Bouvet de Lozier's exploration in 1740.
Chapter 3: Marion Dufresne's and Kerguelen - Tremarec's search for Gonneville Land, and St. Allouarn's survey of south western Australia in 1772.
PART II
Revolutionary France and western Australia
Chapter 4: D'Entrecasteaux's survey of the south coast of western Australia in 1792.
Chapter 5: Baudin and western Australia. Section 1: Origins of the mission and the survey of the south west coast by Hamelin and Baudin in 1801.
Chapter 6: Baudin and western Australia. Section 2: Baudin and Hamelin's exploration of the Swan River and Shark Bay, and Baudin and Freycinet's exploration of King George Sound, Bunbury and Shark Bay in 1801 and 1803.
PART III
Restoration France and western Australia
Chapter 7: Freycinet's further exploration of Shark Bay in 1801.
Chapter 8: The transportation Committee of 1819 and Blosseville's plan for a penal colony in south western Australia from 1819 to 1826.
Chapter 9: The French failure to settle western Australia and the shift of interest to New Zealand: the expeditions of Duperry, Bougainville and D'Urville between 1822 and 1826..
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Includes bibliography and index.
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