Histoire Générale Des Voyages Par Dumont d'Urville, d'Orbigny, Eyriès Et A. Jacobs: Volume 4, Voyage En Asie Et En Afrique d'Aprés Les Récits Des Dern [French]

By Jean-Baptiste-Benoît Eyriès, Jules Dumont d'Urville, Alcide d'Orbigny

This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the work of recent French explorers for a readership avid for accounts of exotic foreign lands. Volume 4 was prepared by Alfred Jacobs (1802-62), an archivist and palaeographer, drawing heavily on an 1839 publication by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyri s (1767-1846). Eyri s was a founder member of the French Geographical Society and a member of the Asiatic Society, trained in botany and mineralogy, an accomplished linguist and seasoned traveller, who wrote, edited and translated a substantial number of works on geography, travel and exploration. Like earlier volumes in Furne's collection, this account of Asia and Africa takes the form of a fictionalised journey, making use of a wide range of additional sources to give readers as complete a picture as possible. This 1859 edition is illustrated with twenty-two engravings.

• Format: Kindle Edition
• Language: French
• ISBN: 1139107577
• ISBN13: 9781139107570
• Release Date: November 2015
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press