The new volume of the "Great Voyages" series - "A Voyage around the World on the Bussoli and the Astrolabe" - introduces to the modern reader the legacy of one of the most famous navigators of the Enlightenment - Jean François de Galot, Comte de La Pérouse (1741–1788 ). This publication is based on the first translation into Russian of the diaries of the great traveler. The circumnavigation route prescribed by Louis XVI to the Royal Navy officer Jean François de La Perouse surpassed everything that was known up to that time: France was going to immediately surpass all the achievements of Great Britain in the geographical discoveries of the unknown lands. In parting words to La Perouse, the king said: “I will consider the expedition to be the happiest result if it is completed without the loss of human lives.” Unfortunately, Louis' wish did not come true. The expedition disappeared in March 1788: La Perouse “disappeared without a trace in the vast blue ocean, and only his sad, mysterious shadow does not leave our minds and hearts.” Only almost 40 years later, in 1826, on the island of Vanikoro, in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, traces of the missing expedition were discovered. This book is the first translation into Russian of the famous traveler's diary, a tribute to the heroic feat of a great man, one of the most remarkable discoverers in the history of mankind. The publication includes a biographical book by the famous historian Ernest Scott, “The Life of La Pérouse,” never previously published in Russian. Like previous editions of the series, the book is beautifully designed and full of a huge number of color and black and white illustrations.