Hubert Sagnières

Daring French Explorations is an exceptional homage to adventure. Intrepid French mariners—including legendary explorers Lapérouse, Bougainville, and Dumont d'Urville, as well as the unsung sailors La Barbinais, Pagès, and Roquefeuil—embark readers on sixteen voyages around the world from 1714 to 1854. A selection of firsthand accounts culled from their maritime travelogues recounts the trials and tribulations the explorers encountered as...

Travel to the North Pole remains the ultimate challenge for intrepid adventurers; this tome takes readers along on ten daring nineteenth-century expeditions through firsthand accounts and striking archival images. This exceptional volume showcases ten major international Arctic expeditions carried out between 1818 and 1876, tracing the journeys of courageous explorers from the United States, England, Scotland, Ireland, and France. These...