Title
Souvenirs d'un Aveugle : Voyage Autour du Monde
Reference Number
G463 .A67 1840
Creator
Date
1840
Format
Description
Jacques Etienne Victor Arago (1790-1855) came to Hawai`i as the senior documentary artist aboard Captain Louis de Freycinet’s Uranie. The year of his arrival, 1819, was a momentous one—the year in which King Kamehameha I died; the year in which his son Liholiho, ruling as Kamehameha II, abolished the kapu system. The sandalwood trade with China was already more than a decade old; the first whaling boats—and the first boatload of American missionaries—would arrive the following year.
Arago’s observations and illustrations thus serve as an important documentation of a crucial juncture in Hawai`i’s history. First published in 1822, Souvenirs… is an informal, first-person narrative of the Uranie’s three-year voyage, written in the form of a series of letters to a friend. This four-volume set owned by the UH-Mänoa Library is a third edition, published in Paris in 1840, and includes sixty hand-colored, lithographed plates.
Arago’s observations and illustrations thus serve as an important documentation of a crucial juncture in Hawai`i’s history. First published in 1822, Souvenirs… is an informal, first-person narrative of the Uranie’s three-year voyage, written in the form of a series of letters to a friend. This four-volume set owned by the UH-Mänoa Library is a third edition, published in Paris in 1840, and includes sixty hand-colored, lithographed plates.
Extent (Pages, Duration, Dimensions)
570 pages;4 volumes
Is Part Of
Hawaiian Collection, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library
Page Location
21