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Lands of True and Certain Bounty: The Geographic Theories and Colonization Strategies of Jean Pierre Purry

Lands of True and Certain Bounty: The Geographic Theories and Colonization Strategies of Jean Pierre Puny. Edited and annotated with introductions to the texts by Arlin C. Migliazzo. Translations from the French by Pierrette C. Christianne-Lovrienand 'BioDunJ. Ogundayo. (Selinsgrove, Pa.: Susquehanna University Press, 2002. Pp. 201; $39.50, cloth.)

This book introduces students of South Carolina history to the life and mind of one of colonial Carolina's most adventuresome and intriguing characters. Jean Pierre Purry (1675-1736) was a Swiss entrepreneur, adventurer, and sometime "philosophe." As an employee of the Dutch East India Company, he sailed to the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) in ...

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