While British soldiers and settlers colonised Australia, French scientists continued to explore its coastlines and study its strange flora and fauna.

Lap�rouse and Labillardi�re, Baudin and Bougainville and others left their own, lighter marks on the country in the name of human knowledge.

This is their story--deeply researched and richly imagined by zoologist and award-winning science writer Danielle Clode.

Voyages to the South Seas is an exhilarating expedition through a key period in the European exploration of the Pacific and in the history of science.