Voyage de marseille à Limala escala de Duret en las islas Canarias en 1708
ISSN: 0423-4804
Year of publication: 2004
Issue: 49
Pages: 327-348
Type: Article
More publications in: Estudios Canarios: Anuario del Instituto de Estudios Canarios
Abstract
This article presents the itherto unpublished translation of the joumey to Gran Canaria and Tenerife of one of many travellers who stopped at the Canarian Islands, in the 18th century, on their way to West Indies. Pierre-Claude Duret, native of Bourg-en-Bresse in France, called at the archipelago in 1708 and took advantage ofhis joumey in the two islands to describe landscapes and people, giving to History an appreciable testimony of the 18th century canarian reality