{"id":1737,"date":"2018-09-09T21:15:49","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T21:15:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/?p=1737"},"modified":"2019-01-27T17:13:23","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T17:13:23","slug":"nicholas-pike-naturalist-author-soldier-consul","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/?p=1737","title":{"rendered":"Nicholas Pike : Naturalist, Author, Soldier &#038; Consul"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N-Pike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1738\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N-Pike.jpg\" alt=\"Nicholas Pike\" width=\"743\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N-Pike.jpg 743w, https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N-Pike-300x155.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 743px) 100vw, 743px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1739\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N1.jpg\" alt=\"N1\" width=\"158\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a>Arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 Maurice en janvier 1867 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 49 ans et reparti en 1873, rarement Consul aura autant brill\u00e9 dans notre \u00eele, que Nicolas Pike. En sept ann\u00e9es, il aura accompli une \u0153uvre gigantesque dans tous les do- maines scientifiques et naturalistes de son \u00e9poque. Passionn\u00e9 par la Science, il devint tr\u00e8s vite membre de l\u2019\u00e9minente Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Royale des Arts et Sciences, y fr\u00e9quentant tous les botanistes et zoo- logues de son temps. Il s\u2019av\u00e9ra ainsi un ex- cellent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1740\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N2.jpg\" alt=\"N2\" width=\"225\" height=\"160\" \/><\/a>ichtyologue, un botaniste chevronn\u00e9 et m\u00eame un g\u00e9ologue non moins averti. Ses travaux ne manqu\u00e8rent pas d\u2019originalit\u00e9, d\u00e9couvrant plusieurs esp\u00e8ces, \u00e9tudiant m\u00eame la faune des \u00eeles avoisinantes, telle l\u2019\u00eele Ronde pour laquelle ses d\u00e9couvertes font encore autorit\u00e9 et r\u00e9f\u00e9rence aujourd\u2019hui. On lui doit 500 dessins et peintures de poissons de Maurice, travail consid\u00e9rable qui fut d\u00e9pos\u00e9 au <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1741\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N3.jpg\" alt=\"N3\" width=\"262\" height=\"188\" \/><\/a>sein des collections des plus pres- tigieux Museums du monde. Son \u0153uvre majeure de plus de 500 pages, livre d\u00e9licieux \u00e0 lire, Sub-Tropical Ram- bles in the Land of the Aphanapteryx, constitue \u00e0 lui seul un monument d\u2019an- thropologie d\u00e9crivant l\u2019Ile Maurice de la mani\u00e8re la plus d\u00e9taill\u00e9e et exhaustive qui fut possible, cela dans un style des plus agr\u00e9ables. Personnage attachant et volubile, Nicolas Pike incarne vraiment le <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1742\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N4.jpg\" alt=\"N4\" width=\"236\" height=\"203\" \/><\/a>savant arch\u00e9typique du 19e si\u00e8cle, tel que nous le d\u00e9crira plus tard un Jules Verne. Gr\u00e2ce \u00e0 lui, de nombreuses traces de l\u2019Ile Maurice de cette \u00e9poque nous sont parvenues. Son \u0153uvre fait date, tant pour les historiens que les scientifiques qui d\u2019ailleurs, y font tous r\u00e9f\u00e9rence. Retourn\u00e9 dans son Brooklyn new-yorkais, o\u00f9 il fut Pr\u00e9sident de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 d\u2019Histoire Naturelle, il conserva toujours la nostalgie de son s\u00e9jour \u00e0 Maurice, d\u00e9c\u00e9dant en 1905 apr\u00e8s avoir offert une \u0153uvre scientifique consid\u00e9rable.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Exposition du 19 sep- tembre au 27 octobre <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Blue Penny Museum. Acc\u00e8s gratuit, tlj, sauf dimanches et jours f\u00e9ri\u00e9s, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Baz4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1732\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Baz4.jpg\" alt=\"Baz4\" width=\"118\" height=\"146\" \/><\/a>de 10h \u00e0 16h30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1743\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/N5.jpg\" alt=\"N5\" width=\"144\" height=\"98\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arriv\u00e9 \u00e0 Maurice en janvier 1867 \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 49 ans et reparti en 1873, rarement Consul aura autant brill\u00e9 dans notre \u00eele, que Nicolas Pike. En sept ann\u00e9es, il aura accompli une \u0153uvre gigantesque dans tous les do- maines scientifiques et naturalistes de son \u00e9poque. Passionn\u00e9 par la Science, il devint tr\u00e8s vite membre&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/?p=1737\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nicholas Pike : Naturalist, Author, Soldier &#038; Consul<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5,6,19],"tags":[23,74,70],"class_list":["post-1737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arts-culture-misc","category-history-misc","category-people-misc","category-travel-misc","tag-mauritius","tag-naturalist","tag-pike","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1737"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1776,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1737\/revisions\/1776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mauritiusmag.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}