148 pages, 47 pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color maps, color portraits ; 30 cm
Summary
Includes many exquisite watercolours from the Lesueur 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 what remains of Napoleon's ambition to establish a new scientific empire
Analysis
EXPLORATION
Exhibition catalogues (Australia,France)
NATURAL HISTORY
Natural history - general
Notes
Catalogue of an exhibition in collaboration with the Collection Charles-Alexandre Lesuer of Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, from Ville du Havre, France, and held at the Museum of Sydney, 27 February-30 May 1999