The Voyage of Francois Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope 2 Volume Paperback Set
Transcribed from the First English Edition
Published on 31. October 2010
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Paperback/Softback
616 pages
978-1-108-01353-6 (ISBN)
Description
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Francois Leguat (1637-1735) was a French Huguenot who became the leader of a group of seven Huguenot refugees forced to colonise the island of Rodriguez in 1693, after the French claimed their intended destination, the Ile de Reunion. He remained on the island for two years, before escaping via the neighbouring island of Mauritius; after imprisonment in Jakarta, he returned to Europe in 1698.
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English
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Cambridge
United Kingdom
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Dimensions
Height: 219 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 43 mm
Weight
809 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-01353-6 (9781108013536)
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Francois Leguat | Samuel Pasfield Oliver
The Voyage of Francois Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope
Transcribed from the First English Edition
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10/2010
Cambridge University Press
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Content
Volume I: Table of contents; List of illustrations and maps; Editor's preface; Bibliography; Introduction; Chronology of events; Addenda et corrigenda; Dedicatory letter to Herr Christian Bongart, Dutch edition; Table of contents in headings of chapters, Dutch edition; Title of original English edition; Letter of dedication to the Duke of Kent; Author's preface; Part I: Voyage and adventures of Legaut and his companions until their departure from the Island of Rodriguez; Autobiographical monument inscribed by the author. Volume II: Table of contents; List of illustrations and maps; Bibliography; List of illustrations and maps in original edition; Addenda et corrigenda; Part II: Voyage from Rodriguez to Mauritius; Adventures in that island, Java, and at the Cape of Good Hope; Return of the adventurers to Holland; Thanksgiving hymn; Appendices; Index.