Book: Narrative Of A Voyage To Senegal In 1816 (dodo Press) Surgeon (Jean Baptiste) Henri Savigny (1793-1843) was the author of Observations sur les Effets de la Faim et de la Soif (1818) and along with engineergeographer Alexandre Corrard (1788-1857) wrote Naufrage de la Frgate 'La Mduse' (1817), which was first published in English as Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal in 1816 (1818). The Medusa was a French frigate which was shipwrecked on July 2, 1816 on the bank of Arguin, off the coasts of Mauritania, leaving 390 dead and 15 survivors, of which 5 died before their transfer to Saint-Louis in Senegal. Naufrage de la Frgate 'La Mduse'/ Narrative of a Voyage to Senegal is the testimony of two of the survivors: Alexandre Corrard and Jean-Baptiste Henri Savigny.
Details of Book: Narrative Of A Voyage To Senegal In 1816 (dodo Press) Book: Narrative Of A Voyage To Senegal In 1816 (dodo Press)
Author: J. B. Henry Savigny, Alexander Correard
ISBN: 1406538795
ISBN-13: 9781406538793
, 978-1406538793
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Jul 2007
Publisher: Dodo Press
Number of Pages: 184
Language: English