Voyage à Cayenne, dans les deux Amériques et chez les anthropophages

PITOU Louis-Ange
Voyage à Cayenne, dans les deux Amériques et chez les anthropophages
Chez l'auteur, Paris 1805 An XIII, in-8 (12,5 x 20,5 cm), xlvij-312 p & 404 pp., 2 volumes, contemporary sheep
First edition with two folding frontispieces (transportees on a frigate and Black people burying transportees).
Contemporary half brown sheep. Spine with a number of series of triple fillets. A little rubbing. Corners bumped.
A royalist and anti-Revolutionary, the chronicler and singer Ange Pitou, having been arrested several times, was finally sentenced to transportation to the penal colony of Cayenne. He was later pardoned by the Emperor. Having given a brief outline of his life, the author recounts his arrest, imprisonment and transportation to Cayenne. He then gives an account of life in the penal colony. The work includes a number of anecdotes about Black people, American Indians, cannibalism and the French Revolution. His account of his detention is interesting in a number of respects, though the author was accused of exaggerating the cruelty of life in Guyana.
With a list of the transportees who embarked with the author at the end of volume two, including those who died and those who escaped.