{"product_id":"9781602230002","title":"Storms and Dreams: The Life of Louis de Bougainville","description":"\u003cp\u003eWitty, charming, and fiercely intelligent, Louis-Antoine Comte de Bougainville (1729–1811) managed, in the course of a long life, to play a part in nearly every facet of eighteenth-century life and culture. \u003ci\u003eStorms and Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e is a lively, authoritative recounting of Bougainville's adventures and achievements, which ranged from seamanship and soldiering to mathematics and navigation. Dunmore follows Bougainville from the French and Indian War, during which he commanded a unit in the defense of Quebec City, to his circumnavigation of the globe in 1766. During that trip, he became one of the first Westerners to visit Tahiti; on his return, he published a book about the island that contributed greatly to Tahiti's lasting reputation as a paradise of noble savages. In his last years, Bougainville served in the senate under Napoleon and was made a member of the Legion of Honor.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first biography of Bougainville in English, \u003ci\u003eStorms and Dreams\u003c\/i\u003e opens a window to a remarkable eighteenth-century life—and to the greater world of the Enlightenment.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Alaska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47061065728240,"sku":"9781602230002","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781602230002_p0.jpg?v=1763824429","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781602230002","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}