This mid-nineteenth-century collection, published in Paris in 1859-63, focuses on the travels of three influential French explorers. Using lightly-fictionalised accounts of their experiences, it described the natural history and indigenous and colonial societies of five continents for a popular readership avid for accounts of exotic foreign lands.
This mid-nineteenth-century collection, published in Paris in 1859-63, focuses on the travels of three influential French explorers. Using lightly-fictionalised accounts of their experiences, it described the natural history and indigenous and colonial societies of five continents for a popular readership avid for accounts of exotic foreign lands.