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<p><b>The gripping story of a dramatic eighteenth-century voyage of discovery from </b><b>Naomi J. Williams<br><br></b>In her wildly inventive debut novel, Naomi J. Williams reimagines the historical La Pérouse 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.<br> Deeply grounded in historical fact but refracted through a powerful imagination, <i>Landfalls</i> 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. Each chapter is told from a different point of view and is set in a different part of the world-ranging from London to Tenerife, Alaska to remote South Pacific islands and Siberia, and eventually back to France. The result is a beautifully written and absorbing tale of the high seas, scientific exploration, human tragedy, and the world on the cusp of the modern era.<br> By turns

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Author

Naomi J. Williams

Publisher

Farrar, Strauss and Giroux

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780374712471

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Humanities

Rating

3.91 / 5 (381 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14