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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 July 2015
      04 September 2014
      ISBN:
      9781107447363
      9781108073738
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781107447363
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      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.67kg, 422 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, History, Global History, Latin American History
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
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    Subjects:
    Area Studies, Latin American Studies, Geography, Historical Geography, History, Global History, Latin American History
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Maritime Exploration
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    The first reliable maps of the Chilean and Peruvian coasts were drawn by the French explorer Amédée-François Frézier (1682–1773). In 1712, he was sent on a spying mission to the Spanish ports and fortifications of South America, travelling along the Pacific coastline as far as Callao, the port of Lima. His maps were later used by two of France's most famous explorers, Bougainville and Lapérouse. Frézier also took a keen interest in botany, mineralogy, economics and anthropology. His most celebrated achievement is the introduction to Europe of the Chilean strawberry, which was used to create the hybrid species known today as the garden strawberry. Frézier's observations and illustrations of the people, plants and animals he encountered on his South American travels are given in this popular account, published in Paris in 1716 and subsequently translated into several European languages.

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