Where fate beckons: the life of Jean-François de la Pérouse.

Name: Where fate beckons: the life of Jean-François de la Pérouse.
SKU: f3062c61fcdb
Price: 45.00 AUD
Availability: InStock

Dunmore, John.
$45.00

John Dunmore is recognised as a world authority on La Perouse and French Navigation. This very readable book not only tells the story of an important and remarkable life but also provides a lively introduction to the world of French colonialism, exploration and society in the years leading up to the Revolution.

Add to Wishlist

SKU: f3062c61fcdb Categories: biographylit, General, New Books

Description
Additional information

Description

ABC Books, Octavo, dustwrapper, black and white illustrations, maps.

Additional information

Weight	800 g

Description

Additional information

Related products

A Naturalist’s Guide to the Reptiles of Australia (Second Edition)

World of Birds

A Guide to Crickets of Australia

A Field Guide to the Birds of Thailand

You may also like

Australian Alps: Kosciuszko, Alpine and Namadgi National Parks

The Antarctic dictionary: a complete guide to Antarctic english.

The Wet Tropics: Endemic Terrestrial Vertebrates of Australia’s Wet Tropics

On the move: how and why animals travel in groups.

Bayesian population analysis using WinBUGS: a hierarchical perspective.

Art of the New Naturalists: forms from nature.

Australian Wildlife on your Doorstep

The Voyage of the Beagle: The Illustrated Edition of Charles Darwin’s Travel Memoir and Field Journal

Nature Conservation on Farms EnviroGuide

The Kimberley: Endemic Frogs, Reptiles, Birds and Mammals

Vanishing World: The Endangered Arctic

Grassfires: Fuel, Weather and Fire Behaviour

A Concise History of New South Wales

Animal Architecture

The Hawkesbury River: A Social and Natural History

A Short History of New Zealand

Tropical Marine Life of Australia: Plants and Animals of the Central Indo-Pacific

Keeping the Wild: Against the Domestication of Earth

Acting for endangered species: the statutory ark.

Practical Field Ecology: A Project Guide

Green Guide to Dangerous Creatures of Australia

Bush Tukka Guide: Identify Australian Plants and Animals, and Learn How to Cook with Them

Freshwater: the essence of life.

The natural history of Madagascar.

The Platypus and the Mermaid: and other figments of the classifying imagination.

Bush Seasons: An Affectionate Study of a Tiny Bushland

Fire: A Brief History (Second Edition)

Reef Life: An Underwater Memoir

Evolution in Minutes: The Origins and Story of Life Explained and Illustrated

The Best of Times

An-me Arri-ngun: The Food We Eat: Traditional Plant Foods of the Kundjeyhmi People of Kakadu National Park

Nature Underfoot: Living with Beetles, Crabgrass, Fruit Flies, and Other Tiny Life Around Us

Don’t look behind you, but: more tales from an African safari guide.

Australia’s Volcanoes: An Extensive Guide to Australia’s Volcanic Past

Life’s intrinsic value: science, ethics, and nature.

Communication skills for conservation professionals.

Evolution’s captain: the story of the kidnapping that led to Charles Darwin’s voyage aboard the “Beagle”.

Kenya: A Natural History

The Butterfly hunter: the life of Henry Walter Bates.

Wet and Wild: A Field Guide to the Freshwater Animals of the Southern Tablelands and High Country of the ACT and NSW

Traveller’s Wildlife Guides: Southern Mexico. The Cancun Region, Yucatan Pininsula, Oaxaca, Chiapas, and Tabasco.

Sustainable Freshwater Aquaculture: The Complete Guide

Wildlife of Australia

Travellers’ wildlife guides: Southern Africa.

The nature of diversity: an evolutionary voyage of discovery.

Numerical ecology.

Australian Wildlife After Dark

Animal rights: what everyone needs to know.

People of the River: Lost Worlds of Early Australia

Cook’s Endeavour Journal: The Inside Story

Remarkable Plants that Shape our World

R student companion.

101 Animals of the Wet Tropics: A Field Guide

Australia’s Most Dangerous Spiders, Snakes and Marine Creatures (Revised Edition)

Monkeyluv and other essays on our lives as animals.

An Imperial disaster: the wreck of George III.

The Fly River, Papua New Guinea: Environmental Studies in an Impacted Tropical River System

In defense of nature.

An unexpected ecosystem: the Amazon as revealed by fisheries.

Life in the estuary: illustrated guide and ecology.

Zoo: a history of zoological gardens in the west.

Photographing nature in action.

The ecotravellers’ wildlife guide: Alaska.

Frogs of the United States and Canada (2 Volume Set)

Australia’s Best 100 Walks

Feral Dilemma: The Life of a Ranger on Sub-Antarctic Macquarie Island

Who’s Minding the Farm? In this Climate Emergency

A Complete Guide to Arctic Wildlife

Ecological methodology.

Voyages of Discovery: A Visual Celebration of Ten of the Greatest Natural History Expeditions

Monitoring plant and animal populations.

Fate of the Forest: Developers, Destroyers, and Defenders of the Amazon (Updated Edition)