DÉBUTS EN TERRES LOINTAINES (1793-1813)

Book sample: DÉBUTS EN TERRES LOINTAINES (1793-1813) NEUTRES DE L’OCÉAN INDIEN Henri Prentout a retracé la vie de l’Ile de France sous l’Empire et son gouverneur Decaen (1803-1810). Son maître-livre jette une lumière vive sur ce que durent être les activités de Johann Jacob Wiehe durant cette période : éloignée de la métropole, le plus souvent isolée par le blocus maritime britannique, la colonie...

Green Conquest: Naturalists and 1810

  Green Conquest: Naturalists and 1810 Among the British soldiers and sailors who arrived in the Indian Ocean in the course of the Napoleonic wars were a few remarkable individuals who were to become renowned as much for their achievements as naturalists and writers as for their military and maritime occupations. By noting their observations in diaries, letters and memoirs, men like Matthew Flinders, naval officer and...

Mauritian society since Independence

Book Review – Mauritian International Newspaper, March 1999 Mauritian society since Independence Consolidating the Rainbow: Independent Mauritius 1968-98 Edited by Dr. M. Carter (C.R.I.O.S., Mauritius 1998) THIS book is the latest in the Rainbow series published by the Centre for Research on Indian Ocean Society’s (CRIOS). The book assesses the development of Mauritian society during the last 30 years through the...