The travels of Abbé Carré, 1672-74.
Subtitle: Vol. I/II[-III.
Contributors: Fawcett, Marion Edith (Fry) Lady, tr.; Fawcett, Charles, Sir, 1869-1952, ed.
Series: Works issued by the Hakluyt Society, 2d ser., no. 95-97; Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ;; 2nd ser., no. 95-97.
Publisher: Kraus Reprint
Published: 1967
Place of publication: Nendeln, Liechtenstein]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 984
Subjects: India -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.; Asia -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Notes: Cover title.
Each vol. has special t.p.
Translation of Le courier de l'Orient.
Reprint of the 1947-48 ed., which was published in 3 v. under title: The travels of the Abbé Carré in India and the Near East, 1672 to 1674, translated from the manuscript journal of his travels in the India Office by Lady Fawcett and edited by Sir Charles Fawcett with the assistance of Sir Richard Burn.
Table of contents: title: v. 1-2. From France through Syria, Iraq, and the Persian Gulf to Surat, Goa, and Bijapur, with an account of his grave illness. From Bijapur to Madras and St. Thomé. Account of the capture of Trincomalee Bay and St. Thomé by de la Haye, and of the siege of St. Thomé by the Golconda army and hostilities with the Dutch.; title: v. 3. Return journey to France with an account of the Sicilian revolt against Spanish rule at Messina.