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First and only edition of P.J. Barnwell’s documentary history of Mauritius featuring more than fifty extracts of various accounts of the island from the sixteenth to the early nineteenth century.

Each section of Barnwell’s study begins with his own commentary on the period before offering various translated extracts of visits and despatches from the island. Sections one to three begin with the Dutch visit to the island in 1598 before going on to document early English visitors and the first Dutch settlers there; section four covers the Dutch decision to abandon the island in the 1710s; section five describes French settlement and piracy throughout the eighteenth century; and the last two sections are dedicated to the British conquest and government of the island in the nineteenth century. Barnwell was one of the most important historians of Mauritius in the twentieth century and published a short history of the island, alongside Auguste Toussaint, in the following year. This present work contains key information concerning not only the history of Mauritian settling but also the gradual extinction of the Dodo, which survived longest in Mauritius and with which the island is often associated.

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