Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes
Danielle Clode (The Miegunyah Press/Melbourne University Publishing in association with the State Library of Victoria)
Judges report
Danielle Clode's Voyages to the South Seas: In Search of Terres Australes utilises the creative and intellectual skills of the writer to tell the little-known story of the French exploration of, and engagement with, the Pacific landscape during the late 18th and early decades of the 19th century. This is both a scholarly and narrative-driven book that unfolds its history through the cast of real life characters who helped to form it. |