The French Reconnaissance – Baudin in Australia 1801–1803 | Frank Horner | 1987 [USED – HCDJ – Out of Print]

Frank Horner's detailed account of Nicolas Baudin's two-year scientific expedition to the coasts of Australia, published by Melbourne University Press in 1987. Baudin commanded two ships — the Géographe and the Naturaliste — on a voyage commissioned by Napoleon to survey the Australian coastline and collect scientific specimens. The expedition spent considerable time in Van Diemen's Land, where Baudin's interactions with the Aboriginal population were documented in detail by the expedition's scientists, and where he encountered Matthew Flinders in Encounter Bay in April 1802 — a meeting that has become one of the most discussed moments in Australian exploration history.

The expedition returned to France with thousands of natural history specimens, detailed charts of previously unrecorded coastline, and extensive journals and drawings. Horner draws on the French archives, the expedition journals and subsequent scholarship to produce what remains the standard English-language account of the Baudin voyages.

At 460 pages with an index and published by Melbourne University Press, this is a thorough and well-documented scholarly work. Out of print since publication.

CONDITION

Used, generally good condition.

BOOK DETAILS

• Hardcover with dust jacket.
• 460 pages, indexed.
• Approximately 16cm x 24cm.
• Published 1987 by Melbourne University Press. Out of print.

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