| Summary: | Julien Thoulet was a French geologist, mineralogist, and cartographer whose devotion to oceanography began with his 6 month voyage to Newfoundland aboard the Clorinda. Thoulet took a leave of absence from his position at the University of Nancy to analyze the topography and geology of the sea floor of the Grand Banks and the French Shore of Newfoundland. This book contains Thoulet's personal observations of the people, social conditions, and the island itself, as well as details of Cape Breton and St. Pierre and Miquelon. (A voyage to Newfoundland. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005, p. xv-xvi). Library's copy inscribed : à Monsieur Benoît, Doyen hon're de la Faculté des Lettres de Nancy, hommage très respectueux - J. Thoulet -- Previously printed in six installments within the Bulletin de la Société de géographie de l'Est.
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