This four-volume collection showcasing discoveries by French explorers appeared in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. Volume 4, describing a fictionalised journey through Asia and Africa, is an updated version, published in 1859, of an 1839 work by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyriès (1767-1846), a founder member of the French Geographical Society.
This four-volume collection showcasing discoveries by French explorers appeared in Paris in the mid-nineteenth century. Volume 4, describing a fictionalised journey through Asia and Africa, is an updated version, published in 1859, of an 1839 work by Jean-Baptiste Benoit Eyriès (1767-1846), a founder member of the French Geographical Society.