Marchand, Étienne, and Charles Pierre Claret de Fleurieu:

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VOYAGE AUTOUR DU MONDE, PENDANT LES ANNÉES 1790, 1791, ET 1792, PAR ÉTIENNE MARCHAND, PRÉCÉDÉ D'UNE INTRODUCTION HISTORIQUE; AUQEL ON A JOINT DES RECHERCHES SUR LES TERRES AUSTRALES DE DRAKE, ET ... An account of the second French circumnavigation and the first French commercial voyage to the Pacific Northwest. Étienne Marchand, commander of the voyage, had learned of the lucrative potential for the fur trade in that region from British captain Portlock. He sailed via Cape Horn, stopped at the Marquesas, and traded along the Northwest Coast in the summer of 1791. He provides detailed descriptions of Norfolk Sound and Sitka, followed by a particularly detailed account of the Queen Charlotte Islands, and further explorations as far as the southern end of Vancouver Island. "A very important and authoritative work for the history of the Northwest Coast" - Lada-Mocarski.From North America Marchand sailed to Hawaii and then to Macao, where he failed to sell his valuable cargo of furs. He then returned to France, where the Revolutionary government confiscated his cargo. The voyage was a loss for its investors. He died in 1793, and Count Fleurieu, himself an experienced Pacific explorer, took over the editing and publication of the material from the voyage, as well as adding an authoritative history of Pacific exploration and discoveries along the American coast. Considerable text is also devoted to natural history exploration en route. The detailed maps are of Alaska and the Northwe

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