Where Fate Beckons
The Life of Jean-François de la Pérouse
Distributed for University of Alaska Press
304 pages
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17 halftones, 7 maps
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9 1/2 x 6 1/4
- Contents
- Review Quotes
Table of Contents

Contents
Prologue
Part 1: A Teenager at War
1 Albi
2 Brest
3 A Teenager at War
4 The Slow End of a Disastrous War
Part 2: Interlude
5 Marking Time
Part 3: Down in the Indian Ocean
6 Arguments in the Isle de France
7 Service in Indian Waters
8 Introducing Elénore Broudou
Part 4: The American War
9 Back in France
10 The American Campaign Begins
11 The Struggle Continues
12 Triumphs and Defeats
13 The Hudson Bay Raid
Part 5: Family Business
14 Marriage at Last
Part 6: The Great Voyage
15 An Inquiry in Lorient and Plans in Paris
16 Paris: The Final Plans
17 South and North to Alaska
18 Alaska to California
19 Across the Pacific to China and the Philippines
20 The Philippines to Kamchatka
21 Kamchatka to Australia
22 Forty Years of Oblivion
Part 7: The Unending Search
Epilogue
La Pérouse Commemorated
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
9 Back in France
10 The American Campaign Begins
11 The Struggle Continues
12 Triumphs and Defeats
13 The Hudson Bay Raid
Part 5: Family Business
14 Marriage at Last
Part 6: The Great Voyage
15 An Inquiry in Lorient and Plans in Paris
16 Paris: The Final Plans
17 South and North to Alaska
18 Alaska to California
19 Across the Pacific to China and the Philippines
20 The Philippines to Kamchatka
21 Kamchatka to Australia
22 Forty Years of Oblivion
Part 7: The Unending Search
Epilogue
La Pérouse Commemorated
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index
Maps
Review Quotes
Glyndwr Williams | International History Review
"The world of Pacificc scholarship owes a considerable debt to John Dunmore, whose monographs, editions of journals, and articles . . . have documented the exploits of French navigators in the great ocean. . . . Dunmore is particularly effective in using the journals to convey the claustrophobic, often squalid conditions on ships crowded with men and animals. . . . [Dunmore’s two biographies] provide readbale and balanced accounts of the lives of two navigators who to many in the English-speaking world are little more than names."
Canberra Times
"[Dunmore] wears considerable learning lightly. . . . [He] is consistently excellent."
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