The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope 2 Volume Paperback Set

Transcribed from the First English Edition

von François Leguat

616 Seiten, Mehrteiliges Produkt

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. François 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 Réunion. 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.

• ISBN: 9781108013536
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 31.10.2010
• Größe: 219 x 144 mm
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Herausgegeben von: Samuel Pasfield Oliver