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Article: The sea-road of good intentions.(Citizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834))(Book Review)
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- November 1, 2004
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Citizen Labillardiere: A Naturalist's Life in Revolution and Exploration (1755-1834), by Edward Duyker; Melbourne University Press, 2003, $59.95.
IN HIS NEW BOOK, Citizen Labillardiere, Edward Duyker offers an informative and considered account of one of the pioneers of modern botany and a significant figure in the development of the life sciences. Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardiere was a naturalist on the French expedition to the South Seas, undertaken in 1791-93 in order to find La Perouse, whose expedition had vanished after leaving Botany Bay in 1788. He published an account of the voyage in his Relation, which is not only one of the classic works of ...