Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Leseur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition which produced these remarkable images. A voyage born of revolutionary times, these images are what remains of napoleon's ambition to establish a scientific empire.
Pages
160
Format
Paperback
Publisher
Historic Houses Trust of New South Wales
Release
May 01, 1999
ISBN
0949753866
ISBN 13
9780949753861
Terre Napoleon: Australia Through French Eyes 1800-1804
Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Leseur Collection at the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle Le Havre and explores the story behind the Baudin expedition which produced these remarkable images. A voyage born of revolutionary times, these images are what remains of napoleon's ambition to establish a scientific empire.