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Author / Creator:	Horner, Frank, 1917-
Imprint:	Carlton, Vic. : Miegunyah Press, 1995.
Description:	xiv, 318 p., [12] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, -- comte de, -- 1741-1788. Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, -- chevalier d', -- 1737-1793. Entrecasteaux, Antoine Raymond Joseph de Bruni, -- chevalier d', -- 1737-1793 La Pérouse, Jean-François de Galaup, -- comte de, -- 1741-1788 Discoveries in geography. Australia -- Discovery and exploration. Oceania -- Discovery and exploration. Australia. Oceania.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2548866

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ISBN:	0522844510
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

1. The Assembly Orders a Rescue Mission
2. A Commodore's Career
3. Commissioning
4. To Van Diemen's Land: a Change of Plan
5. Van Diemen's Land: a Lucky Error
6. The Admiralties: the Diversion
7. Amboina: Disunity aboard
8. Esperance Bay: Danger and Disappointment
9. Van Diemen's Land again: 'the First State of Society'
10. Tongatapu: Gaiety and Violence
11. New Caledonia: 'this Barbarous Land'
12. Santa Cruz, Solomons, New Guinea: the Last Surveys
13. To Sourabaya: the Leader's End
14. Sourabaya: in Dutch Hands
15. Going Home - or into Exile
16. Retrieving the Records
17. Successes and Failures
Officers, midshipmen and scientific staff.