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Ernest Michel

b. 1837

A tireless 19th-century French traveler, he turned long journeys into lively books packed with close observation. His travel writing follows routes through the Southern Hemisphere and around the world with a lawyer’s eye for detail and a traveler’s curiosity.

2 Audiobooks

À travers l'hémisphère sud, ou Mon second voyage autour du monde. Tome 1 Portugal, Sénégal, Brésil, Uruguay, République Argentine, Chili, Pérou.

À travers l'hémisphère sud, ou Mon second voyage autour du monde. Tome 1 Portugal, Sénégal, Brésil, Uruguay, République Argentine, Chili, Pérou.

by Ernest Michel

À travers l'hémisphère sud, ou Mon second voyage autour du monde. Tome 2 Équateur, Panama, Antilles, Mexique, Îles Sandwich, Nouvelle-Zélande, Tasmanie, Australie.

À travers l'hémisphère sud, ou Mon second voyage autour du monde. Tome 2 Équateur, Panama, Antilles, Mexique, Îles Sandwich, Nouvelle-Zélande, Tasmanie, Australie.

by Ernest Michel

About the author

Born in Nice on September 6, 1837, Ernest Pellegrin Joseph Michel was a French traveler and writer. Records from the Bibliothèque nationale de France identify him as Ernest Michel (1837–1896), and his known works include travel narratives such as À travers l'hémisphère sud, ou Mon second voyage autour du monde.

His writing is remembered for patient, wide-ranging observation. Rather than treating travel as pure adventure, he described the societies, landscapes, institutions, and daily life he encountered, giving his books the feel of both a journey and a document of their time.

He died in Nice on January 24, 1896. While he is not widely known today, his surviving books preserve the voice of a curious 19th-century traveler who wanted readers to see the wider world as carefully as he did.