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Book/Printed Material Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique : & de plusieurs terres & isles decouuertes de nostre temps

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Title

  • Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique : & de plusieurs terres & isles decouuertes de nostre temps

Summary

  • André Thevet (1516/17-92) was a Franciscan friar who traveled widely and, through his writings, helped to establish cosmographie--as geography was called at the time--as a science in 16th-century France. After making trips to Africa and the Middle East in the 1540s, he was appointed chaplain to the expedition of Nicolas Durand de Villegagnon, which set out from Le Havre in May 1555 to establish a colony in Brazil. The expedition landed near present-day Rio de Janeiro in November of the same year. In January 1556, Thevet fell ill and left Brazil for France. The following year, he published this account of his voyage. The work was highly popular and led to his appointment as royal cosmographer. Thevet's account includes descriptions of the coast of Africa, the Canary Islands, and Madagascar, all of which he visited on the way to Brazil, as well as of Florida and Canada, which he may have visited on his return trip. His descriptions of the native peoples he encountered and their customs and beliefs, as well as of the plants and animals he saw, are written in a plain, factual style. The work is illustrated with woodcuts, many of which are highly inaccurate, but which nonetheless influenced works by later travelers such as Theodore de Bry. World Digital Library.

Names

  • Thevet, André, 1502-1590
  • Maurice de La Porte héritiers, printer

Created / Published

  • A Paris : Chez les heritiers de Maurice de la Porte, 1557.

Headings

  • -  Indians--Early works to 1800
  • -  Africa--Description and travel
  • -  Africa--Discovery and exploration--French
  • -  America--Early accounts to 1600
  • -  America--Description and travel
  • -  America--Discovery and exploration--French
  • -  Brazil--History--French colony, 1555-1567
  • -  France--Paris

Notes

  • -  Title vignette.
  • -  LAC nsk 2019-04-10 update (1 card)

Medium

  • [16], 166, [2] leaves : illus. ; 22 cm.

Call Number/Physical Location

  • E141 .T39

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 07009857

Online Format

  • pdf
  • image

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Chicago citation style:

Thevet, André, and Printer Maurice De La Porte Héritiers. Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique: & de plusieurs terres & isles decouuertes de nostre temps. A Paris: Chez les heritiers de Maurice de la Porte, 1557. Pdf. https://www.loc.gov/item/07009857/.

APA citation style:

Thevet, A. & Maurice De La Porte Héritiers, P. (1557) Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique: & de plusieurs terres & isles decouuertes de nostre temps. A Paris: Chez les heritiers de Maurice de la Porte. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/07009857/.

MLA citation style:

Thevet, André, and Printer Maurice De La Porte Héritiers. Les singularitez de la France antarctique, autrement nommée Amerique: & de plusieurs terres & isles decouuertes de nostre temps. A Paris: Chez les heritiers de Maurice de la Porte, 1557. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <www.loc.gov/item/07009857/>.