Histoire Générale Des Voyages. Volume 4 Voyage En Asie Et En Afrique d'Aprés Les Récits Des Derniers Voyageurs

Histoire Générale Des Voyages. Volume 4 Voyage En Asie Et En Afrique d'Aprés Les Récits Des Derniers Voyageurs - Cambridge Library Collection. Travel and Exploration

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Publisher's Synopsis

This 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 (1802-62), an archivist and palaeographer, drawing heavily on an 1839 publication by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyriès (1767-1846). Eyriès 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 exploration. Like earlier volumes in Furne's collection, this account of Asia and Africa takes the form of a fictionalised journey, making use of a wide range of additional sources to give readers as complete a picture as possible. This 1859 edition is illustrated with twenty-two engravings.

Book information

ISBN: 9781139107570
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Imprint: Cambridge University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 910.4
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: French
Weight: -1g