Voyage autour du monde
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Voyage autour du monde (Le voyage autour du monde, par la frégate La Boudeuse, et la flûte L'Étoile : "Journey around the World") is a book written by French explorater Louis Antoine de Bougainville.
The book is a travel log of the circumnavigation of the Boudeuse and Étoile between 1766 and 1769.
It contains descriptions of the geography, biology and anthropology of Argentina (then a Spanish colony), Patagonia, Tahiti and Indonesia (then a Dutch colony).
The book was a sensation, especially the description of the Tahitian society. Diderot wrote a Supplément au voyage de Bougainville with his reaction to it.
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