Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe, Vol. 5: Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829; Histoire du Voyage (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
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Excerpt from Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe, Vol. 5: Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829; Histoire du Voyage
Depuis quatre heures du matin jusqu'à onze heures, nous reçûmes de fortes rafales de vent du nord au N. N. E., qui nous firent chasser à deux reprises différentes. La première fois dix - huit brasses, la seconde vingt brasses de câble filé nous arrêtèrent; enfin nous tînmes bon avec soixante et quinze brasses de câble à la mer.
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Voyage De D?couvertes De L'Astrolabe: 1826 - 1829; Voyage De D?couvertes De L'Astrolabe: 1826 - 1829; Jules Dumont D'Urville
Jules Dumont d'Urville
Tastu, 1834
Fiction; Classics; Fiction / Classics; Literary Criticism / General
Enumeratio Plantarum Quas in Insulis Archipelagi Aut Littoribus Ponti-Euxini: Annis 1819 Et 1820 (Classic Reprint) (Latin Edition)
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Histoire générale des voyages par Dumont D'Urville, D'Orbigny, Eyriès et A. Jacobs (Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration) (French Edition)
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This four-volume collection was issued by the Paris publisher Furne in the mid-nineteenth century to showcase the adventures and discoveries of recent French explorers. In Volumes 1 and 2 the naval officer Jules Dumont d'Urville (1790-1842) presents a lightly fictionalised account based on his first two voyages to the Pacific on board the Coquille (renamed L'Astrolabe for the second voyage). This was intended for a wider audience and offered at a more affordable price than the large-format scientific expedition reports produced for the French government. The work, illustrated with engravings, was originally published in 1832, but the printings by Furne reissued here date from 1863 and 1859 respectively. Volume 1 describes the voyage through the Atlantic to the Cape of Good Hope, and focuses on South and South-East Asia, China and Hawaii, covering natural history, indigenous culture, and colonial commerce. It ends with the ship's arrival in French Polynesia.
Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe, Vol. 1: Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829; Philologie (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
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Excerpt from Voyage de Découvertes de l'Astrolabe, Vol. 1: Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829; Philologie
Nous savons que Flaccourt et Challan ont déja plll)llé chacun un Vocabulaire étendu sur le même sujet; mais ces ouvrages sont devenus fort rares. D'ailleurs nous nous ?attons de l'espoir que celui que nous présentons l'emportera d'une manière tres - marquée sur les ouvrages de nos prédéces scurs, pour la rédaction, pour la précision, et surtout pour l'orthographe adoptée afin de rendre convenablement la prononciation des naturels.
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Voyage de la Corvette l'Astrolabe, Vol. 4: Exécuté par Ordre du Roi, Pendant les Années 1826-1827-1828-1829; Histoire du Voyage (Classic Reprint) (French Edition)
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La houle du nord ne cessa pas de régner durant ces longs calmes et le 26 au soir elle était si forte que la corvette roulait panne sur panne de la façon la plus incommode.
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Un Épisode du Voyage de lAstrolabe (French Edition)
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La corvette lAstrolabe comptait onze mois de campagne lorsquelle arriva devant Tonga-Tabou. Elle venait dopérer la reconnaissance suivie de trois cent soixante lieues des côtes de la Nouvelle-Zélande, et sur ces plages orageuses elle avait été maintes fois exposée aux dangers les plus imminens. À son arrivée même à Tonga-Tabou, des circonstances quil était aussi impossible de prévoir que de prévenir, la jetèrent sur les récifs qui bordent le canal de lest. LAstrolabe resta suspendue pendant quatre-vingt-seize heures au bord de ces masses verticales de coraux, et sans cesse menacée de sa ruine par les lames du large qui venaient battre contre ses flancs. Durant tout ce temps, son salut ne tint quà un fil, car il suffisait de la rupture dun seul anneau de ses chaînes ou du morceau de corail auquel chaque ancre avait mordu, pour la livrer à une destruction complète. Échappée enfin, comme par miracle, à cet affreux péril, lexpédition put mouiller dans lintérieur du hâvre de Pangaï-Modou ; les avaries furent réparées du mieux quil fut possible : déjà même le capitaine dUrville déterminé, malgré ses pertes, à poursuivre son plan de campagne, se flattait de reprendre la mer sans éprouver dautres obstacles, lorsque la trahison des naturels vint exposer lAstrolabe à de nouveaux dangers. M. dUrville, dans son journal, raconte ainsi quil suit les diverses circonstances de cet épisode.
Voyage Au Pole Sud Et Dans L'océanie Sur Les Corvettes L'astrolabe Et La Zélée ... Pendant 1837-1840, Sous Le Commandement De J. Dumont D'urville. ... Atlas Pittoresque. 2 Tom (French Edition)
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Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville was a French explorer, naval officer and rear admiral. As a botanist and cartographer he left his mark, giving his name to several seaweeds, plants and shrubs, and places such as D'Urville Island.
Background
Dumont was born at Condé-sur-Noireau in Lower Normandy on the 23rd of May 1790. His father, Gabriel Charles François Dumont, held a judicial post in Condé before the revolution. His mother Jeanne Françoise Victoire Julie came from Croisilles, Calvados and was a rigid and formal woman from an ancient family of the rural nobility of Lower Normandy.
Education
The death of his father devolved the care of his education on his mother and his maternal uncle, the Abbe de Croizilles. He failed the physical tests of the entrance exam to the École Polytechnique and he therefore decided to enlist in the navy.
Career
Dumont went to sea in 1807 as a novice on board the “Aquilon. ” During the next twelve years he gradually rose in the service, and added a knowledge of botany, entomology, English, German, Spanish, Italian and even Hebrew and Greek to the professional branches of his studies.
In 1820, while engaged in a hydrographic survey of the Mediterranean, he was fortunate enough to recognize the Venus of Milo (Melos) in a Greek statue recently unearthed, and to secure its preservation by the report he presented to the French ambassador at Constantinople. A wider field for his energies was furnished in 1822 by the circumnavigating expedition of the “Coquille” under the command of his friend Duperrey; and on its return in 1825 his services were rewarded by promotion to the rank of capitaine de frégate, and he was entrusted with the control of a similar enterprise, with the especial purpose of discovering traces of the lost explorer La Pérouse, in which he was successful.
The “Astrolabe, ” as he renamed the “Coquille, ” left Toulon on the 25th of April 1826, and returned to Marseilles on the 25th of March 1829, having traversed the South Atlantic, coasted the Australian continent from King George’s Sound to Port Jackson, charted various parts of New Zealand, and visited the Fiji Islands, the Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Amboyna, Van Diemen’s Land, the Caroline Islands, Celebes and Mauritius.
Promotion to the rank of capitaine de vaisseau was bestowed on the commander in August 1829; and in August of the following year he was charged with the delicate task of conveying the exiled king Charles X. to England. His proposal to undertake a voyage of discovery to the south polar regions was discouraged by Arago and others, who criticized the work of the previous expedition in no measured terms; but at last, in 1837, all difficulties were surmounted, and on the 7th of September he set sail from Toulon with the “Astrolabe” and its convoy “La Zélée. ” On the 15th of January 1838 they sighted the Antarctic ice, and soon after their progress southward was blocked by a continuous bank, which they vainly coasted for 300 m. to the east.
Returning westward they visited the South Orkney Islands and part of the New Shetlands, and discovered Joinville Island and Louis Philippe Land, but were compelled by scurvy to seek succour at Talcahuano in Chile. Thence they proceeded across the Pacific and through the Asiatic archipelago, visiting among others the Fiji and the Pelew Islands, coasting New Guinea, and circumnavigating Borneo. In 1840, leaving their sick at Hobart Town, Tasmania, they returned to the Antarctic region, and on the 21st of the month were rewarded by the discovery of Adélie Land, which D’Urville named after his wife, in 140° E. D’Urville was at once appointed rear admiral. On the 8th of May 1842 he was killed, with his wife and son, in a railway accident near Meudon.
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Connections
In 1816, Dumount married Adèle Pepin, daughter of a clockmaker from Toulon. Adélie and Jules had three sons. The first one died at a young age while his father was aboard La Coquille.