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Mémoires du capitaine Péron, sur ses voyages aux côtes d'Afrique, en Arabie, à l'île d'Amsterdam, aux îles d'Anjouan et de Mayotte, aux côtes nord-ouest de l'Amérique, aux îles Sandwich, à la Chine, etc

[Péron, François]

Paris : Brissot-Thivars, Libraire; Paris : Rossange Frères

"'Edited from the author's manuscripts by Louis Saturnin Brissot-Thivars, 1824':- L.C. Catalog. 'M. Bernard, l'un des amis de M. Peron, s'est emparé de ses papiers et de ses journaux; il a pris le soin de les coordonner et d'en former une oeuvre complète':- Avis de l'éditeur, vol.I, p.ii.

There is some doubt as to Péron's correct forenames and H.R. Wagner questioned his existence, ref. California Historical Society Quarterly, Vol.I, 1922/23, P.173. He has been confused by some authorities with the naturalist François Peron, 1775-1810, author of Voyage de decouvertes aux terres australes. Paris, 1807-1816. Ferguson calls him 'François Auguste', others 'François Pierre'.

Péron's adventurous career included an enforced residence of forty months on Amsterdam Island, with four companions. He was rescued in 1795 by the Ceres and taken to Sydney from where he sailed on a trading voyage to the northwest coast as chief officer under Captain Ebenezer Dorr in the Otter, ref. D. Collins. An account of the English colony in New South Wales. London, 1798, voI.I, pp.452 and 457. Includes lengthy dealings with Maquinna at Nootka."-- Strathern, G. M., & Edwards, M. H. (1970). Navigations, traffiques & discoveries, 1774-1848: A guide to publications relating to the area now British Columbia. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 236.

Voyages and travels; Fur trade--Northwest, Pacific; Northwest Coast of North America

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1824

G460 .P45 1824 ; II-0441

Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. G460 .P45 1824

Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library

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