The Voyage of François Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldive… Volume 2
The Voyage of Franois Pyrard of Laval to the East Indies, the Maldives, the Moluccas and BrazilAuthor(s): Franois Pyrard, Albert Gray, H. C. P. Bell\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108013468, 978-1108013468\nSynopsis\nThe publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Shipwrecked on the Maldives in [tel], Pyrard de Laval learnt the local language and studied the culture, flora and fauna of the islands. On his escape to Goa he continued his cultural investigations in Portuguese India, before returning to France by way of Saint Helena and Brazil in 1611. His book, w.
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