TY - BOOK AU - Verne,Jules AU - Philippoteaux,Paul TI - Les grands navigateurs du XVIIIe siècle AV - G PY - 2017/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Voyages and travels KW - Discoveries in geography KW - Explorers N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/D%C3%A9couverte_de_la_terre:_Histoire_g%C3%A9n%C3%A9rale_des_grands_voyages_et_des_grands_voyageurs; Release date is 2017-11-01; Produced by Claudine Corbasson, Hans Pieterse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries); Original publication data not identified N2 - "Les grands navigateurs du XVIIIe siècle" by Jules Verne is the second volume of a three-part popular science work published in 1879. Written with French geographer Gabriel Marcel, this volume chronicles the great eighteenth-century navigators and explorers who mapped the world's oceans and continents. The work traces voyages from early astronomers and cartographers through Captain Cook's expeditions, French maritime explorers, and adventurers who ventured into Africa, Asia, and the Americas during an age of unprecedented discovery. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/55869 ER -