Author: GEORGES DE VISDELOU-GUIMBEAU
Title: La decouverte des iles Mascareignes
Description: Port Louis, The General Printing & Stationery co. 1948, First Limited Edition. Soft cover, 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. Book, xii, 61 pages plus index and contents page. No. 302 of the limited edition of 500 copies. The Mascarene Islands (or Mascarenes or Mascarenhas Archipelago) is a group of islands in the Indian Ocean east of Madagascar consisting of the islands belonging to the Republic of Mauritius as well as the French department of Réunion. Their name derives from the Portuguese navigator Pedro Mascarenhas, who first visited them in April 1512. The archipelago comprises three large islands, Mauritius, Réunion, and Rodrigues, plus a number of volcanic remnants in the tropics of the southwestern Indian Ocean, generally between 700 and 1500 kilometres east of Madagascar. Very Good.

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