The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands : Made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bougainville, in Order to Form a Settlement There

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The work The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands : Made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bougainville, in Order to Form a Settlement There represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in European University Institute Library. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Language Material, Books.

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The History of a Voyage to the Malouine (or Falkland) Islands : Made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bougainville, in Order to Form a Settlement There

Title remainder

Made in 1763 and 1764, under the Command of M. de Bougainville, in Order to Form a Settlement There

Statement of responsibility

Antoine-Joseph Pernety

Creator

• Pernety, Antoine-Joseph, 1716-1801

Subject

• Natural history -- Falkland Islands -- Pre-Linnean works
• Falkland Islands -- Early works to 1800
• Magellan, Strait of (Chile and Argentina) -- Early works to 1800

Genre

• Early works to 1800
• Pre-Linnean works

Language

• eng
• fre
• eng

Summary

After the French and Indian War, in which France and England had fought over the control of North America, the French government decided to send an expedition to the Falkland Islands, or Isles Malouines, with a view to founding a colony where the Acadians expelled from Canada could settle. Under the command of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729–1811), the 1763–4 expedition claimed these islands for France and established a base at Port Saint Louis. This work, translated from French and first published in English in 1771, is an illustrated account of this endeavour by Antoine-Joseph Pernety (1716–96), a naturalist and writer who took part in the expedition. Notably, it contains the first description of the geological phenomena of the stone runs on East Falkland. The latter part of the work is a compilation of letters and notes pertaining to subsequent voyages to Patagonia and the Straits of Magellan.--

Member of

• Cambridge library collection, Latin American studies

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UkCbUP

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Series statement

• Cambridge library collection. Latin American studies
• Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks