BRAND NEW Please allow 4-7 working days for delivery This item is shipped from our NZ warehouse

The French Explorers and Sydney by Colin Dyer

ISBN: 9780702237034 PUBLISHER: University of Queensland Press FORMAT: Paperback PAGES: 224 PUBLICATION DATE: 30.03.2009 DIMENSIONS: 224mmX152mmX18mm 295grams

DESCRIPTION: The early years of Sydney were witnessed by seven expeditions of French exploration between 1788 and 1831. These expeditions spent well over a year in the new town of Sydney meeting most of its leading citizens and visiting its expanding environs. The French explorers, including Freycinet, Laperouse and Bougainville, were received and entertained by Sydney's dignitaries. Their revealing accounts present intimate details of everyday lives at all levels of society, from the Governors' parties to "the sickening spectacle" (as de Bougainville saw it) of convicts on the treadmills in Sydney's penitentiary. The French Explorers and Sydney contains previously unpublished translations of European experiences in the early colonial period.

• Orders after Monday 12th cannot be guaranteed for Christmas
• Dispatch warehouse is closed from 12pm 23rd Dec - Friday 6th Jan
• If using business address pls use PO Box as do not use courier