A Voyage to the South-Sea and along the Coasts of Chili and Peru, in the Years 1712, 1713, and 1714: With a Postscript by Dr Edmund Halley and an ... Library Collection - Maritime Exploration) - Softcover

Frézier, Amédée-François

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ISBN 10: 1108077005 ISBN 13: 9781108077002

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2014

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The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773). They are reproduced in this popular travel account, reissued here in its English translation of 1717. The work also includes enlightened observations on the people, plants and animals encountered.

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The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773). In 1712, he was sent on a spying mission to the Spanish ports and fortifications of South America, travelling along the Pacific coastline as far as Callao, the port of Lima. His maps were later used by two of France's most famous explorers, Bougainville and Lapérouse. Frézier also took a keen interest in botany, mineralogy, economics and anthropology. His most celebrated achievement is the introduction to Europe of the Chilean strawberry, which was used to create the hybrid species known today as the garden strawberry. Frézier's observations and illustrations of the people, plants and animals he encountered on his South American travels are given in this popular account, published in Paris in 1716 and reissued here in the English translation of 1717.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1108077005
• ISBN 13: 9781108077002
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 428