Baudin, Napoleon and the Exploration of Australia

by Nicole Starbuck

Overview

This is the first in-depth study of the sojourn in Sydney made by Nicolas Baudin’s scientific expedition to Australia in 1802. Starbuck focuses on the reconstruction of the voyage during the expedition’s stay in colonial Sydney and how this sheds new light on our understanding of French society, politics and science in the era of Bonaparte.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781848932104
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/2013
Series:	Empires in Perspective
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction: Voyaging out of the Enlightenment; Chapter 1a Between Revolution and Empire: France and its Australian Voyage in 1800; Chapter 2 'I Should wish ... to Establish a Few Tents on Shore': The Port Jackson Stay; Chapter 3 Disciplining Passions: French Naval-Voyagers at Anchor; Chapter 4 The French and the British: A Diplomatic Relationship; Chapter 5 Liberty, Equality and 'Civilization': Observations of Colonial Aborigines; Chapter 6 Swans, Frogs and Rum: Natural History in an 'Unnatural' Space; Chapter 7 Baudin's 'New Expedition'; Chapter 8 Epilogue: Voyaging into the Nineteenth Century;