Name: Relation du Voyage de la mer du sud aux Cotes du Chily et du Perou, Fait Pendant les Annees 1712, 1713 & 1714 - (Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration) (in French)
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Author: Amedee Francois Frezier
ISBN: 9781108073738

portada Relation du Voyage de la mer du sud aux Cotes du Chily et du Perou, Fait Pendant les Annees 1712, 1713 & 1714 - (Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration) (in French)

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Physical Book

Publisher

Cambridge University Press

Author

Amedee Francois Frezier

Year

2014

Language

French

Pages

422

Format

Paperback

ISBN13

9781108073738

Synopsis "Relation du Voyage de la mer du sud aux Cotes du Chily et du Perou, Fait Pendant les Annees 1712, 1713 & 1714 - (Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration) (in French)"

The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amédée-François Frézier (1682-1773). In 1712, he was sent on a spying mission to the Spanish ports and fortifications of South America, travelling along the Pacific coastline as far as Callao, the port of Lima. His maps were later used by two of France's most famous explorers, Bougainville and Lapérouse. Frézier also took a keen interest in botany, mineralogy, economics and anthropology. His most celebrated achievement is the introduction to Europe of the Chilean strawberry, which was used to create the hybrid species known today as the garden strawberry. Frézier's observations and illustrations of the people, plants and animals he encountered on his South American travels are given in this popular account, published in Paris in 1716 and subsequently translated into several European languages.

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