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An Officer of the Blue

An Officer of the Blue

Duyker, Edward

Paperback

Series: Miegunyah Press Series, Book 16

Adventurers & ExplorersHistorical FiguresAustralia & Oceania

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ISBN10: 0522845657
ISBN13: 9780522845655
Publisher: Melbourne University
Published: Apr 30 1990
Pages: 229
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.75 Width: 6.80 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
The first full account of the man who reached Tasmania before the English. French explorer Marion Dufresne was the man who reached Tasmania before the English. His expedition was the first to encounter the Tasmanian Aborigines and was a precursor of the great voyages of La Pérouse, d'Entrecasteaux, Baudin and d'Urville. To Australian and New Zealand readers this elegant biography will be, as Frank Horner writes, 'a reminder, or a revelation of the international context in which the English explorations of their homelands took place'. The eighteenth-century conflict between Britain and France is mirrored in Marion Dufresne's life. The parallels with Cook are striking. Like his English contemporary, Marion was a brilliant mariner who proved his skills in merchant shipping before joining his nation's Royal Navy. Like Cook he was involved in scientific efforts to observe the Transit of Venus and sought the Southland in uncharted waters. Finally, he too died tragically at the hands of Polynesians.

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