STORMS AND DREAMS Louis De Bouganville, Soldier, Explorer, Statesman by John Dunmore

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Louis-ANtoine Comte de Bouganville is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in 1766 and 1769. Throughout a long and distinguished life, however, he participated in many of the turning points of world history: the birth of the United States, the fall of French Canada, the opening of the Pacific, the French Revolution and Revolutionary Wars, the crowning of Napoleon and the Modernisation of France. A true man of the Enlightment, he was gifted in vavigation, seamanship, soldiering, mathamatics, longitude and latitude – many of the arts that made his age one of the most productive and creative in modern history.
First edition 2005, hard cover & dust jacket, maps, index, ISBN 0-7333-1458-9 (Old stock, never read, good condition)