Jean-Baptiste-Barthelemy de Lesseps (1766 1834), a French diplomat, served as an interpreter on La Perouse's voyage around the world, which sailed from Brest in 1785. In 1787, on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, he was tasked with an overland mission to get reports back to France as La Perouse proceeded to Australia. This two-volume work, reissued here in its English translation of 1790, is a compelling account of the one-year journey from Russia to France, and a tale of endurance and resourcefulness in the face of forbidding conditions. More than a mere journal, it also relates...
Jean-Baptiste-Barthelemy de Lesseps (1766 1834), a French diplomat, served as an interpreter on La Perouse's voyage around the world, which sailed fro...
Jean-Baptiste-Barthelemy de Lesseps (1766 1834), a French diplomat, served as an interpreter on La Perouse's voyage around the world, which sailed from Brest in 1785. In 1787, on the eastern coast of the Kamchatka peninsula, he was tasked with an overland mission to get reports back to France as La Perouse proceeded to Australia. This two-volume work, reissued here in its English translation of 1790, is a compelling account of the one-year journey from Russia to France, and a tale of endurance and resourcefulness in the face of forbidding conditions. More than a mere journal, it also relates...
Jean-Baptiste-Barthelemy de Lesseps (1766 1834), a French diplomat, served as an interpreter on La Perouse's voyage around the world, which sailed fro...