Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky

Name: Intriguing Life and Ignominious Death of Maurice Benyovszky
Brand: Taylor & Francis Inc
SKU: 9781412865432
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Autor: Andrew Drummond

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Published in 1790, Maurice Benyovszkys posthumous memoir was an instant sensation. A tale of explor...

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Autor

Andrew Drummond

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engleză

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Publicat

2017

Pagini

288

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9781412865432

ISBN

1412865433

Enbook ID

15553189

Editura

Taylor & Francis Inc

Greutate

460

Dimensiuni

233 x 157 x 19

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Published in 1790, Maurice Benyovszkys 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 Benyovszkys 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.

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