Histoire véritable de certains voyages périlleux et hasardeux sur la mer, 1599
By: Bruneau de Rivedoux ; édition, présentation et notes de Alain-Gilbert Guéguen ; préface de François Belloc.
Contributors: Guéguen, Alain-Gilbert.
Series: Voyages et récits
Publisher: Editions de Paris; diffusion, Harmonia mundi
Published: 1996
Place of publication: Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 126
Subjects: Voyages and travels -- Early works to 1800.; Navigation -- France -- La Rochelle -- History -- Early works to 1800.
Description: "Welcome reprint of one of the oldest sets of narratives (eight short texts) of French voyages to the Caribbean in late 1500s. The author, a captain operating from La Rochelle, describes the islands, his privateering raids and encounters with the Caribs, and his trade along the European Atlantic Coast"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [123]-124).