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    Where Fate Beckons: The Life of Jean-François de La Pérose

    By John Dunmore

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    Jean-François De Galup, Comte De La Pérouse is second only to James Cook in his historical significance and was the major explorer of the Pacific in the eighteenth century.Pérouse’s life has been the subject of prolonged study by John Dunmore, the acknowledged world expert, and this fresh and lively biography reveals the epic adventure of an extraordinary life. As a naval officer La Pérouse captured two English forts in Hudson Bay in 1782 and was recognised by both sides for his courage and humanity. Three years later the King of France put him in charge of an expedition to rival James Cook’s. Pérouse’s two 500 ton ships left France in August 1785 replete with a mathematician and three naturalists. They mapped the American north west from Alaska to California and the unknown seas north of Japan and the Siberian coast. During the voyage messengers were sent overland back to France with reports and discoveries.Just five days after the First Fleet landed at Botany Bay, Australia, La Pérouse arrived and uneasy pleasantries were exchanged. Shortly after Pérouse set sail towards the Solomon Islands and he and his ships were never seen again.A romantic man with the saddest marriage story, a great soldier, an inspired leader and a man with a mysterious end, Pérouse’s story has now finally come to light with this major new biography.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherExisle Publishing
    Release dateMar 1, 2006
    ISBN9781775592426
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    John Dunmore

    John Dunmore, CNZM, DLitt, Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ, and holder of two of France’s most prestigious awards, the Chevalier de la Legion d’honneur and the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, has written over 30 books in his stellar career as a Pacific historian. Now in his nineties, this is his second book for Upstart Press. Chasing a Dream: the search for the imaginary Pacific (Upstart, 2016) is John Dunmore’s highly readable account of mankind’s obsession with what lay on the “other side” of the world, and how a few brave souls from different nations doggedly pursued the dream of finding fame and wealth through the discovery of the Great Southern Continent.

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