Explorer Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d'Urville (17901842) is sometimes called France's...

A Dictionary of Sea Quotations surveys nearly three millennia of literature, including novels, po...

Explorer Jules-Sébastien-César Dumont d’Urville (1790–1842) is sometimes called France’s Captain ...

In 1800 Francois Peron, an ambitious young medical student not long released from the French revo...

French explorer Marion Dufresne was the man who reached Tasmania before the English. His expediti...

The first publication of the lively recollections of Emily Skinner, immigrant and miner's wife on...

In 1791 Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sailed with two ships from Revolutionary France to search f...

This is the first full biography of an important eighteenth-century naturalist, a colleague of Ba...

Some 180 letters written either by or to the Swedish naturalist and pioneer are reproduced here.