From Baird Maritime
A vast and comprehensive work concluding with six undoubtedly well-deserved pages of acknowledgements, this biography of France's "Capitaine Cook", Jules-Sebastien-Cesar Dumont d'Urville, is a beautifully presented epic of exploration, discovery and science.
Born after Cook's death and commencing his career after the other famed French Indo-Pacific explorers such as D'Entrecasteaux, La Perouse, Baudin and Bougainville, Dumont d'Urville may well have wondered if there was anything left to explore. Needless to say, his energy and curiosity inspired a host of invaluable explorations and discoveries.
Dying with his wife and son in what was, until then, the world's worst train crash, at the tragically young age of 52, Dumont d'Urville accomplished much. Fortunately for history and readers of this book, his papers, charts, plans, memoirs and other documentation were collected and preserved immediately following his death.
The author has brilliantly utilised those and other documents to record the important and fascinating life of this vitally important explorer who achieved so much.
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