Lure of the Southern Seas: The Voyages of Dumont D'urville 1826-1840

Published in association with the 2002 exhibition Lure of the Southern Seas: The Voyages of Dumont D'Urville, 1826-1840, held at the Museum of Sydney.

Dumont d'Urville is remembered for his audacious act of pilfering the Venus de Milo for France, for solving one of the greatest maritime mysteries by discovering the fate of the La Pérouse expedition, and for laying claim to Antarctica.