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

This volume of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1889) contains the memoirs of traveller François Leguat (1637–1735).

Samuel Pasfield Oliver (Edited by), François Leguat (Author)

9781108013536, Cambridge University Press

Multiple-component retail product, published 31 October 2010

616 pages
25 x 32.4 x 6.8 cm, 0.8 kg

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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

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.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH]