The History Of The Pirates

Gravier, Gabriel: La Cartographie De Madagascar. 0

Garvier, Gabriel. La Cartographie De Madagascar. Rouen, E. Cagniard; Paris, A Challamel, 1896. Mansfield Centre, CT: Martino Publishing, 2003. Hardbound. Cloth. Maps, Facsimiles. New. *The written history of Madagascar began in the seventh century A.D., when Arabs established trading posts along the northwest coast. European contact began in the 1500s, when Portuguese sea captain Diego Dias sighted the island after his ship became separated from a fleet bound for India. In the late 17th century, the French established trading posts along the east coast. From about 1774 to 1824, it was a favorite haunt for pirates, including Americans, one of whom brought Malagasy rice to South Carolina. Beginning in the 1790s, Merina rulers succeeded in establishing hegemony over the major part of the island, including the coast. In 1817, the Merina ruler and the British governor of Mauritius concluded a treaty abolishing the slave trade, which had been important in Madagascar's economy. In return, the island received British military and financial assistance. British influence remained strong for several decades, during which the Merina court was converted to Anglicanism and Congregationalism. The British accepted the imposition of a French protectorate over Madagascar in 1885 in return for eventual control over Zanzibar (now part of Tanzania) and as part of an overall definition of spheres of influence in the area. Absolute French control over Madagascar was established by military force in 1895-96, and the Merina monarchy was abolished. Gravier's is the only comprehensive work on the subject, and is quite scarce. It has never been reprinted and no copies are offered on line as of the announcement of this new printing.

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Hare, Rosalie. The Voyage of the Caroline from England to Van Diemen's Land and Batavia in 1827-28. With chapters of the early history of Northern Tasmania, Java, Mauritius and St. Helena by Ida Lee. London,Longmans, Green and Co.,1927.
1827 begleitete die Autorin (1810-?) ihren Gatten - den Kapitän der "Caroline" - in die Südsee, nach Tasmanien und Java. "Mrs. Rosalie Hare (...) kept the diary, now printed for the first time (...)." (Introduction) "(...) the impressions she noted of life on board the Caroline and ashore in the Circular Bay Settlement and Java, Mauritius, and St. Helena, are the clear and naive impressions of an untravelled and unsophisticated nineteen-year-old. What happened to her, including an encounter with pirates in mid-Atlantic, repeated bouts of fever, and the birth and death of her first son, may seem sensational to us. But such things could happen to every woman travelling at the time: paradoxically this very 'ordinariness' is what makes Rosalie's simple little account so revealing." - Robinson. Woman Travellers, S.239.

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[KW: Australien; Frau; Frauenleben; Frauenreise; Südsee; Tasmanien]

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Morgan, Michael: PIRATES & PATRIOTS: TALES OF THE DELAWARE COAST. New York Algora Publishing (2005)
B3-2002-2005. Discusses "the colorful characters who line the history of Delaware from its earliest colonial days to the invention of the 'beach resort' and the founding of the nation's 'Summer Capital' to World War II and the present."

8vo., pictorial paper-covered boards. xv, 222 pages.

[KW: Biography Delaware PIRATES]

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Tregonning, K. G. North Borneo, London Her Majestys Stationery Office 1960
About the size of Ireland, a land of dense forests, creeks, swamps and high mountains dominated by sacred Mt. Kinabalu, North Borneo owes much of its prosperity to the individualism of its British administrators and the traders who operated the Chartered Company, planted rubber, grew cutch, rice and tobacco and are now probing the seabed in search of oilfields. Besides problems common to countries in South-East Asia, North Borneo has a few peculiarly its own, such as the mechanized coastal pirates with whom the Borneo police fight a continuous battle of wits. But the total picture is of a happy territory, as polyglot as the Tower of Babel, between whose many peoples flows a broad generous stream of tolerance and racial goodwill. These virtues, sums up the author, are hard to come by, yet North Borneo has them in plenty. If it can impart these blessings to its neighbours it will be a gift more valuable than all the oil in Brunei. Kennedy Tregonning is Raffles Professor of History at the University of Malaya, but he has in the past prospected for gold and dived for pearls. Born in Perth, Western Australia, in 1923, he joined the army on leaving school and later served in the RAAF, mainly as a pilot in Great Britain during World War II. After taking first-class honours in history at Adelaide University he won a scholarship to Oxford. His works include Under Chartered Company Rule-North Borneo 1881-1946, published in 1956. He has a Blue in rugby, has been a champion swimmer and, in his own words, has sailed small boats since I was knee high to a kangaroo. He has travelled in Borneo, Thailand and Malaya and is at present engaged on a history of Malaya.

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