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Ernest Michel

b. 1837

An indefatigable 19th-century French traveler, he turned long journeys into lively books packed with close observation. His work offers readers a window onto the places, peoples, and institutions he encountered around the world.

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 travel writer and explorer. Library and reference records identify him as the author of several late-19th-century travel works, and French literary sources describe him as a methodical observer who traveled widely and wrote in detail about the societies and landscapes he visited.

His best-known books include Le Tour du monde en 240 jours and À travers l'hémisphère sud, ou Mon second voyage autour du monde. These titles suggest the scale of his ambitions: he wrote not as a novelist inventing distant scenes, but as a traveler documenting what he saw across multiple countries and regions.

Michel died in Nice on January 24, 1896. A portrait image was not clearly available from the page I could verify, so no profile photo is included here.