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The Sea Has No End

The Life of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville

Published September 2004

Description

Short-listedfor the 2005 Ottawa Book Award for Non-fiction

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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Contributors

Victor Suthren

Victor Suthren is a writer and historian with a special interest in maritime history. A former director general of the Canadian War Museum, he lives in Merrickville, Ontario.

Book Details

Hardcover
September 2004
6x9 in
224 pp
9781550025194
ePub
September 2004
-
224 pp
9781554880256
ePub
September 2004
-
224 pp
9781770701779