The Sea Has No End - The Life of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

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Width:  6  Inches
Height:  9  Inches
Pages:  224
Format:  Hardback
Publication Date:  January 9, 2004
Illustrations:  None
Publisher:  Dundurn Press

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Soldier, sailor, adventurer, and philosopher, Louis-Antoine de Bougainville was a talented French officer whose remarkable career took him from the boudoirs of Paris to the flintlock battlefields of North America and on to the luch islands of the South Pacific. In this lively biography, author Victor Suthren follows Bougainville‘s career in North America during the Seven Years War and the American Revolution and his adventures in the South Seas. Written with a historian‘s eye for detail, The Sea Has No End is a fascinating portrait of the most stirring and dramatic events of the eighteenth century.

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Victor Suthren is a writer and historian with a special interest in the history of colonial seafaring and exploration. The former director general of the Canadian War Museum, Ottawa, he sails frequently in traditional ships and small boats, retracing epic voyages of the flintlock era. He lives with his wife in Ottawa.

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