Travels in Oceania
Subtitle: memoirs of a whaling ship's doctor, 1866
By: Louis Thiercelin ; translated by Christiane Mortelier.
Publisher: University of Otago Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Dunedin, N.Z
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Thiercelin, Louis, 1809-1884 -- Travel -- Oceania.; Oceania -- Description and travel.
Description: "Journal d'un baleinier : voyages en Océanie ... was published in two volumes ... by Hachette of Paris in 1866 ... In this translation ... I have concentrated on the sections ... which provide eyewitness information of the peoples of the Pacific ... Chapters Five through Nine [of the original]"--Introd.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-350).