Voyage To Australia And The Pacific

In 1791 Admiral Bruny d'Entrecasteaux sailed with two ships from Revolutionary France to search for his compatriot, the explorer La P�rouse, who was missing in the Pacific. Over a period of nearly two years he had held his ideologically divided expedition together. Without his exceptional maritime skills his men (and one cross-dressing woman!) might all have died—or played out the destructive fury of the Revolution on the quarterdeck before reaching Java. More than two centuries later, d'Entreca