{"product_id":"voyage-dans-l-oceanie-centrale-sur-la-corvette-francaise-zf7vangk","title":"Voyage dans L'oceanie Centrale sur la Corvette Française le Bucéphale ...","description":"\u003cp\u003eA very good copy of a work that seldom appears on the market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCharles Pigeard (1818-1885), received orders in October 1843 to drop off missionary priests on various islands in Polynesia. In command of the Bucéphale, based in the Marquesas, he sailed to Tonga-Tabou Islands, Onou-Afou, Wallis, Futuna, New Hebrides, Loyalty Islands, New Caledonia, and after about five months, reached Valparaiso on 31 March, 1844.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was at a time when Anglo-French tensions were particularly high with the ongoing contest for control over Tahiti. While Pigeard says that the information in here is a precis of knowledge of these islands histories and of the progress of catholic missions, it’s only natural that we’d find a gossipy aside such as “every English vessel he saw in New Caledonian waters had Loyalty Islands crew members, and that the masters habitually put into Mare’s reef-strewn leeward coastline to take on a ‘great number’ of men as sailors, as well as women for ‘wives’” (Pigeard quoted in Howe).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePigeard later became naval attaché at the French Embassy in London during the Second Empire.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRare: OCLC locates 6 copies, and just a single copy at auction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowe, K.R., “Tourists, Sailors and Labourers: A Survery of Early Labour Recruiting in Southern Melanesia” in \u003cem\u003eThe Journal of Pacific History\u003c\/em\u003e, Vol. 13, No. 1 (1978), p.23.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Maggs Bros.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47079277494429,"sku":"259673","price":4000.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0669\/0045\/9677\/files\/259673_01_d8977789-b1b1-4d45-95fd-66ef81b9a614.jpg?v=1756379293","url":"https:\/\/store.maggs.com\/products\/voyage-dans-l-oceanie-centrale-sur-la-corvette-francaise-zf7vangk","provider":"Maggs Bros.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}