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MANGIN (Arthur). VOYAGES et Découvertes Outre-Mer au XIXe Siècle. Tours. 1880. - MANGIN (Arthur) VOYAGES et Découvertes Outre-Mer au XIXe Siècle . Illustrations par Durand-Brager. Troisième édition. Tours: Alfred Mame et Fils, Éditeurs, 1880. 400 pp.: il.; 300 mm. Third edition, revised and enriched compared to the first (Tours, Mame, 1863, in-8, III-468 pp.), adopting the large in-4 format with numerous engravings outside the text. Arthur Mangin (1824-1887), French publicist and popularizer of science, compiled in this work an overview of the great voyages of exploration undertaken in the 19th century, from expeditions to the polar regions and the African coasts to crossings of the interior of Australia and Central Asia. The illustrations are by Henri Durand-Brager (1814-1879), a naval painter and traveler himself, which give the volume a significant documentary character. Intended for the cultured public of the time, it combines the rigor of geographical information with adventure narrative, at a time of intense European colonial competition. ⚑ Auto-translated via Google Translate