Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis de Bougainville (Volume 1) (Lives of Great Explorers)

Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis de Bougainville (Volume 1) (Lives of Great Explorers) image
ISBN-10:

1602230005

ISBN-13:

9781602230002

Author(s): Dunmore, John
Edition: First American Edition.
Released: Aug 15, 2007
Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
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Description:

Witty, charming, and fiercely intelligent, Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729–1811) managed, in the course of a long life, to play a part in nearly every facet of eighteenth-century life and culture. Storms and Dreams is a lively, authoritative recounting of Bougainville's adventures and achievements, which ranged from seamanship and soldiering to mathematics and navigation. Dunmore follows Bougainville from the French and Indian War, during which he commanded a unit in the defense of Quebec City, to his circumnavigation of the globe in 1766. During that trip, he became one of the first Westerners to visit Tahiti; on his return, he published a book about the island that contributed greatly to Tahiti's lasting reputation as a paradise of noble savages. In his last years, Bougainville served in the senate under Napoleon and was made a member of the Legion of Honor.The first biography of Bougainville in English, Storms and Dreams opens a window to a remarkable eighteenth-century life—and to the greater world of the Enlightenment.

























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