The Voyage of Francois Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope

Transcribed from the First English Edition

By:

Francois Le Guat

Format:

Paperback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

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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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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. Volume 1 describes his journey to Rodriguez and provides descriptions of the island's now extinct flightless birds and giant turtles.

Release date Australia

June 10th, 2010

Author

Francois Le Guat

Audiences

Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Professional & Vocational

Contributor

Edited by Samuel Pasfield Oliver

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

6 b/w illus. 5 maps

Imprint

Cambridge University Press

Pages

260

Publisher

Cambridge Library Collection

Series

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

Dimensions

140x216x15

ISBN-13

9781108013512

Product ID

6790116

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