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Author Drummond, Andrew, author

Title The Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky / Andrew Drummond
Edition First edition
Published London : Taylor and Francis, 2017

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Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface of Names and Dates and Places and Professors; Chapter I Macao "A Vessel of Uncommon Appearance"; Chapter II Chroniclers "Short and Incomplete, it is Written with a Bias"; Chapter III Poland and Siberia "Iron And Garlick"; Chapter IV Kamchatka "Caviar and Cedar Nuts"; Chapter V Stepanov's Account "A Man Who Played an Active, but Unworthy Role"; Chapter VI Ryumin's Account What Happened, and Other Things, and so on; Chapter VII Mauritius "Captain St Hylaire ... Weighs, Calculates, Forsees the Danger."
Chapter VIII Gentlemen "Who They Were and What Happened to Them and Where They Are Now"Chapter IX Ladies "Five Persons in Womens Apparel"; Chapter X Return from Paris "Wild, Empty Land in Hungary"; Chapter XI Izmailov It Made His Story a Little Suspicious; Chapter XII Scapegoats "The Rampaging Rapaciousness of Robbers"; Chapter XIII Benyovszky's Accounts "Written By Himself"; Chapter XIV Exiled to Siberia "A Pack of Lies"; Chapter XV Kamchatkan Romances "Entrails of Dogs and Rein-deer"; Chapter XVI The Great Escape "Twenty-two Bears Were This Day Salted."
Chapter XVII The Fur-Trade "All Join in Hating the Russians"Chapter XVIII A Gentleman-Pirate Turnips, Garlic and Pirates; Chapter XIX A Voyage North Seven Hundred and Forty Roots of Garlic Nearly the Size of a Child's Head; Chapter XX The Island of Liquor "Namandabez!"; Chapter XXI What the Japanese Thought "Foreign Paper with Horizontal Writing"; Chapter XXII The Ryükyü Islands "The Most Perfect Work of Living Nature"; Chapter XXIII Formosa "An Inadvertence of the Count"; Chapter XXIV Macao "This Proposition, so Evidently Interested, Disgusted Me."
Chapter XXV Mauritius "I Could Not Believe That He Had Discovered Such Agreeable Countries"Chapter XXVI Madagascar -- The Project Good War Against Bad White Man; Chapter XXVII Madagascar -- The Reality "Everything Is Rotten"; Chapter XXVIII Europe and America "I am Ready to Offer Your Country ... My Blood, My Knowledge and My Courage"; Chapter XXIX Return to Madagascar "Give Me One of Your Pistols and I'll Follow You"; Chapter XXX Histories Perfidious Mutilations in Counterfeit Editions; Chapter XXXI A Final Audit "A Very Fair Claim to the Title of Adventurous"; Appendices; Index
Notes "Published in 1790, Maurice Benyovszky's posthumous memoir was an instant sensation. A tale of exploration and adventure beginning with his daring escape from a Siberian prison and ending with his coronation as King of Madagascar, it was translated into several languages and adapted for the theatre and opera. This book explores the veracity of this memoir and, more broadly, the challenges faced by the explorers of the age and the brutality of colonisation. The self-styled Hungarian Baron Maurice Auguste Aladar Benyovszky, Counsellor to the Duke of Saxony and Colonel in the service of the Queen of Hungary, was in fact only confirmed to have been an officer in a regiment of the Polish Confederation of Bar. While he did escape from Russian captors and subsequently travel to Japan, Formosa, China and Madagascar, many of his exploits were wildly exaggerated or simply invented. Andrew Drummond reveals an alternative picture of events by looking at statements from Benyovszky's travelling companions and sceptical officials as well as contemporary documents from the places he claimed to have visited, untangling the truth behind his stories and examining what these stories can nonetheless tell us about the era in which Benyovszky lived. Witty and engagingly written, this book is fascinating reading for anyone interested in eighteenth-century colonial history and the story of early European and Russian explorers."--Provided by publisher
Subject Benyowsky, Maurice Auguste, comte de, 1746-1786
SUBJECT Benyowsky, Maurice Auguste, comte de, 1746-1786 fast
Subject Soldiers of fortune -- Biography
SCIENCE -- Earth Sciences -- Geography.
TRAVEL -- Budget.
TRAVEL -- Hikes & Walks.
TRAVEL -- Museums, Tours, Points of Interest.
TRAVEL -- Parks & Campgrounds.
Soldiers of fortune
SUBJECT Madagascar -- History -- To 1810. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85079497
Subject Madagascar
Genre/Form Biographies
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781315112985
1315112981