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Looking for La Pérouse : D'Entrecasteaux in Australia and the South Pacific, 1792-1793

by Frank Horner

An account of the 1791 French expedition sent to search for the missing explorer La Pérouse. Though politically divided and ending in collapse, the voyage made significant geographical and scientific discoveries before its dissolution in Java.

Accession 12053 ISBN 0522844510 Publisher The Miegunyah Press
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