Ernest Michel - A travers l'hémisphère sud ou mon second voyage autour du monde - 1890

Magnificent illustrated edition in its lovely publisher’s binding of this work that belongs to late 19th-century travel literature and geographical exploration, and recounts a second great journey of the author around the globe, focusing on territories located in the southern hemisphere -

The book is set in a period when advances in steam navigation, railways, cartography, and communications allow European travelers to cover ever larger spaces and to report to Europe observations on the landscapes, the peoples, the economic activities and the political transformations of the regions visited -

Through this narrative, Ernest Michel does not merely seek to recount successive movements, but offers a genuine geographical reading of the southern world, linking the different territories traversed, their climates, resources, populations, and forms of civilization -

Ernest Michel - Across the Southern Hemisphere or My Second Voyage Around the World - 1890 - Volume III - Victor Palmé -

XVI + 365 Pages.

Very good condition of the binding, the work in its full red publisher’s binding adorned with black and gold decorations, slight signs of wear, gilded edges, smooth decorated spine, gilded title and author’s name -

Good interior condition, light browning, title page printed in red and black and adorned with a beautiful vignette, the work enriched with numerous engravings in black in-text and out-of-text including a folding map, blue endpapers in good condition, a fine copy -

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