A bord de la Junon

The narrative recounts a planned global voyage carried out in large part along the eastern and western coasts of South America and through Pacific and Atlantic ports, documenting calls at Gibraltar, Madeira, the Cape Verde islands, Rio de Janeiro, Montevideo, Buenos Aires, the Strait of Magellan and Patagonian channels, Valparaiso, Santiago, Callao, Lima, the Isthmus of Panama and New York. It mixes vivid descriptions of port cities, seafaring life and the shipboard community with practical observations on travel logistics, the organizing society's aims and the reasons the expedition ended in New York rather than completing its circumnavigation, while noting encounters with local authorities and cultural details gathered during shore excursions.