La France Équinoxiale

The explorer Henri Coudreau (1859–1899) describes the geography, peoples and natural resources of French Guyana in the 1880s.

Henri Anatole Coudreau (Author)

9781108006835, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 26 November 2009

536 pages
22.9 x 3 x 15.2 cm, 0.78 kg

Henri Coudreau (1859–1899) was one of the greatest explorers of the nineteenth century. He was highly regarded in his own time as a thoroughly modern expedition leader, and his reports on the anthropological and geographical features of the region were of great value in the expansion of French colonial power. In this magisterial two-volume work, Coudreau describes the history of French settlement and rule in Guyana, and its people, flora and fauna, drawing particular attention to the natural resources ready to be exploited in the region. Volume 2 is an account of Coudreau's travels, mapping and describing remote areas on behalf of the colonial administration. It records the impact of colonialism in South America on native communities now irrevocably altered, and is also important for its early account of the newly declared republic of Counani, a short-lived French-run nation state now part of Brazil.

Préface
1. Le pays de Mapa
2. La région des lacs
3. Apurema et Araguary
4. Le pays de Macapa
5. L'Amazone et le Rio Negro
6. Le Uaupès et ses missions
7. Retour
8. Le Rio Branco
9. Dans les prairies
10. Moeurs des Ouapichianes et des Atorradis
11. À travers les forets vierges
12. À travers les forets vierges (suite)
13. État économique et social du Rio Branco
14. Retour en France
Annexes
Glossaire
Vocabulaires.

Subject Areas: Anthropology [JHM]