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Nancy J. Pollock, « Compte rendu de Dumont d’Urville. Explorer and Polymath, de Edward Duyker », Journal de la société des océanistes, ID : 10.4000/jso.7520
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Dumont D’Urville’s passion for circumnavigating the world in the 1820s and 1830s is clearly conveyed in Duyker’s biography. D’Urville’s three trans-Pacific voyages, first in La Coquille (1822-25), the second and third in the same ship but renamed L’Astrolabe (1826-27, and 1837-41) were voluminously recorded by his hand, both during long spells at sea, and when back home in Toulon and Paris. He published many volumes on his circumnavigations, all in French. Duyker’s biography makes available t...