Between lands of ice and cinders

Résumé :
In the early 1850s a provincial nobleman from Auvergne made a sea voyage from Toulon to New Caledonia. Like other men of the French navy, who explored the Southern Hemisphere, the nobleman wrote letters about the voyage for learned readers in France. Most people living in the lands he visited possessed understandings of Nature that were transmitted orally across the generations via the art of storytelling. In twenty-first-century France, children begin to study historical accounts of far-away places and to observe closely their own natural environment. While learning about the nobleman's voyage, a school community opens new conversations about people who made journeys across the sea and those who stayed in the mountains.
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