Literary Representations of The Great Barrier Reef
In 1626 Samuel Purchas published an anthology of travel stories which included an account by François Pyrard de Laval of his shipwreck on a coral reef in the Maldives for 5 years in the first decade of the seventeenth century. Purchas translates Laval's account of the coral atolls as follows: A...
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| Language: | English |
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James Cook University
2008-07-01
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| Series: | eTropic: electronic journal of studies in the tropics |
| Online Access: | https://journals.jcu.edu.au/etropic/article/view/3433 |