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

9781108013512, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 30 September 2010

260 pages, 6 b/w illus. 5 maps
21.6 x 14 x 1.5 cm, 0.34 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 1 describes his journey to Rodriguez and provides descriptions of the island's now extinct flightless birds and giant turtles.

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.

Subject Areas: African history [HBJH]