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The Memoirs and Travels of Mauritius Augustus Count De Benyowsky, consisting of his military operations in Poland, his exile into Kamchatka, his escape and voyage through the northern Pacific Ocean, touching at Japan and Formosa, to Canton in China, with an account of the French settlement of Madagascar. With an introduction, notes & bibliography by S. Pasfield Oliver. [From the 1790 Translation of the Original Manuscript (1741-1771), By William Nicholson, F.R.S.]
Benyowsky, Mauritius Augustus, Count [1741-1786] & Nicholson, William (translation) & Pasfield, Capt Oliver [Edit and Intro]
Editore: Kegan Paul, London, 1904
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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. 3rd Edition. Reprint edn of 1790 1stedn; 8vo tan cloth spine, gilt titles, over gray bds, spine strip splitting but holding, some pages uncut, appears unread ow VG/ndj: xxxvi+636pp, 2 plates, Intro., notes & bibliography by S.P. Oliver.Narrative of the Hungarian count's military adven…tures in Poland, exile to Siberia, escape from Kamchatka by sea in 1771, and subsequent travels in Japan, Formosa, Kamchatka, and the Kurile and Aleutian Islands. Benyowsky claims to have landed on the Alaskan mainland. Included is an account of his unsuccessful attempt to establish a French colony in Madagascar. Benyowsky was shot by the French in May 1786 at Foule Point on Madagascar when he attempted to take over the colony. The maps and plates were omitted in the Irish edition.