Notes on the West Indies: Written During the Expedition Under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby Volume 2 - Couverture souple

Pinckard, George

 
9781108024266: Notes on the West Indies: Written During the Expedition Under the Command of the Late General Sir Ralph Abercromby Volume 2
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1108024262 ISBN 13 : 9781108024266
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

An army surgeon's detailed account of the West Indies in 1796–1797, first published in 1806.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

George Pinckard (1768–1835) was an army surgeon who arrived in the West Indies in 1796. His letters to a friend were published as Notes on the West Indies in 1806; a second edition came out in 1816. Having been separated by bad weather from the fleet and arriving long before his regiment, he had plenty of time to explore Barbados, which he describes in detail in Volume 2. He is critical of the treatment of some slaves which he witnesses, but seldom questions slavery itself, and considers that, under a good owner, slaves were better off than they would have been in Africa; however, he found that elderly slaves who could no longer work were badly neglected. As a doctor, he is interested in illnesses suffered on the island, such as elephantiasis and yellow fever, and he also describes an expedition to Dutch Guiana.

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1108024262
ISBN 13 
9781108024266
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
498
Coordonnées du fabricant
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