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[Read by Christopher Lane]The gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discovery. In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi Williams reimagines the historical La Perouse expedition, a voyage of exploration that left Brest in 1785 with two frigates, two hundred men, and overblown Enlightenment ideals and expectations, in a brave attempt to circumnavigate the globe for science and the glory of France. Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful imagination, Landfalls follows the exploits and heartbreaks not only of the men on the ships but also of the people affected by the voyage -- natives and other Europeans the explorers encountered, loved ones left waiting at home, and those who survived and remembered the expedition later.



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