The Voyage of François Leguat of Bresse to Rodriguez, Mauritius, Java, and the Cape of Good Hope : Transcribed from the First English Edition (Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series)

Leguat, François/ Oliver, Samuel Pasfield (EDT)

Cambridge University Press（2010/10発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 348 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781108013529
• DDC分類 968.03

Full 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. 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. Volume 2 describes his imprisonment on Mauritius and in Jakarta before his return to Europe via the Cape of Good Hope in 1698.

Contents

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.