TY - BOOK ID - 15483 TI - Discovery and Empire: the French in the South Seas AU - West-Sooby, John PY - 2013 SN - 9781922064523 DB - DOAB KW - jean fornasiero KW - australia KW - oceania KW - french perceptions KW - french voyages KW - pacific ocean KW - shino konishi KW - jacqueline dutton KW - penal colony KW - animal histories KW - nicole starbuck KW - british colony KW - baudin expedition KW - imperialism KW - port jackson KW - freycinet KW - rance KW - south seas KW - john gascoigne KW - british explorers KW - terra australis KW - margaret sankey KW - john west-sooby KW - baudin KW - aboriginal people KW - spanish perceptions KW - stephanie pfennigwerth KW - bougainville KW - abbé paulmier’s mémoires KW - age of the enlightenment KW - french explorers KW - senses UR - https://www.doabooks.org/doab?func=search&query=rid:15483 AB - The French connection with the South Seas stretches back at least as far as the voyage of Binot Paulmier de Gonneville (1503-1505), who believed he had discovered the fabled great south land after being blown off course during a storm near the Cape of Good Hope. (...) It was not until the eighteenth century, however, that France began sending mariners to the southern oceans on a regular basis, and by that time a new maritime power had begun to emerge: Great Britain. Together, these two nations would play a decisive role in determining the configuration of these little known parts of the globe, and particularly of the Pacific, which had for so long been the almost exclusive preserve of Spain. ER -