Discovery and Empire the French in the South Seas

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: University of Adelaide Press 2013
• Subjects: Australasian & Pacific history; abbé paulmier's mémoires; aboriginal people; age of the enlightenment; animal histories; australia; baudin; baudin expedition; bougainville; british colony; british explorers; France; french explorers; french perceptions; french voyages; freycinet; imperialism; jacqueline dutton; jean fornasiero; john gascoigne; john west-sooby; margaret sankey; nicole starbuck; oceania; pacific ocean; penal colony; port jackson; rance; senses; shino konishi; south seas; spanish perceptions; stephanie pfennigwerth; terra australis
• Online Access: Open Access: DOAB: description of the publication; Open Access: DOAB, download the publication
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (302 p.)
• ISBN: discovery
• Access: Open Access

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.