Daring French explorations

Sixteen French explorers embark readers on their voyages around the world, to witness the trials and tribulations encountered as they charted new routes to remote territories. Set sail to Tahiti with Louis-Antoine de Bougainville or to Antarctica with Jules Dumont d'Urville. Learn about Russian domination of Alaska in the eighteenth century, or how the Dutch traded Manhattan to the British for the precious nutmeg plantations on a tiny Indonesian island. Celebrate the first circumnavigation by a woman in the early nineteenth century and observe life as a Westerner in China in 1820.