Table of Contents

Prologue: 11 November 1826

PART 1: A TEENAGER AT WAR
1. Albi: 25 August 1741
2. Brest: December 1756-March 1757
3. A Teenager at War: April 1757-November 1759
4. The Slow End of a Disastrous War: January 1760-January 1763

PART 2: INTERLUDE
5. Marking Time: February 1763-December 1771

PART 3: DOWN IN THE INDIAN OCEAN
6. Arguments in the Isle de France: January-September 1772
7. Service in Indian Waters: April 1773-April 1774
8. Introducing Eleonore Broudou: May 1774-September 1776

PART 4: THE AMERICAN WAR
9. Back in France: May 1777-June 1778
10. The American Campaign Begins: July 1778-February 1780
11. The Struggle Continues: March 1780-April 1781
12. Triumphs and Defeats: April 1781-May 1782
13. The Hudson Bay Raid: May-November 1782

PART 5: FAMILY BUSINESS
14. Marriage at Last: April-October 1783

PART 6: THE GREAT VOYAGE
15. An Inquiry in Lorient and Plans in Paris: October 1783-May 1784
16. Paris: The Final Plans: September 1784-June 1785
17. South and North to Alaska: August 1785-June 1786
18. Alaska to California: July-September 1786
19. Across the Pacific to China and the Philippines: October 1786-March 1787
20. The Philippines to Kamchatka: April-September 1787
21. Kamchatka to Australia: October 1787-March 1788
22. Forty Years of Oblivion: 1788-1827

PART 7: THE UNENDING SEARCH

Epilogue
La Perouse Commemorated
Notes
Select Bibliography
Index

MAPS
France
British North America in the 1780s
The West Indies
Voyage of La Perouse
La Perouse in Alaska
La Perouse in North-East Asia
Possible route of the expedition May-June 1788

About the Author

John Dunmore is Professor Emeritus of French at Massey University, New Zealand. In a long and distinguished academic career, he has written more than 20 books on French navigation in the Pacific, a subject on which he is an acknowledged authority. Professor Dunmore was made a knight of the Legion of Honour by the French Government in 1976, and an officer of the Ordre des Palmes Academiques in 1986. He was appointed a Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2001.