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title	:	Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud
author	:	Viaud, Pierre.; Fabel, Robin F. A.; Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard
publisher	:	University Press of Florida
isbn10 | asin	:	0813010004
print isbn13	:	9780813010007
ebook isbn13	:	9780585162928
language	:	English
subject	Viaud, Pierre, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, Shipwrecks--Florida.
publication date	:	1990
lcc	:	G530.V4813 1990eb
ddc	:	910.4/5
subject	:	Viaud, Pierre, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc, Shipwrecks--Florida.

Page i Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud

Page ii Engraving from Charles G. T. Garnier, Voyages Imaginaires, Songes, Visions et Romans Cabalistiques (Paris, 1787), tome 12, between pages 324 and 325. By permission of the British Library.

Page iii Shipwreck and Adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud Translated and Edited by Robin F. A. Fabel University of West Florida Press Pensacola

Page iv Copyright 1990 by the Board of Regents of the State of Florida Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Viaud, Pierre [Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud, natif de Bordeaux, capitaine de navire. English.] Shipwreck and adventures of Monsieur Pierre Viaud / translated and edited by Robin F.A. Fabel. p. cm. Translation of: Naufrage et aventures de M. Pierre Viaud, natif de Bordeaux, capitaine de navire. Previously attributed to Jean Gaspard Dubois-Fontanelle, the editor of the French ed. ISBN 0-8130-1000-4 1. Viaud, Pierre. 2. Survival (after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.) 3. ShipwrecksFlorida. I. Fabel, Robin F. A., 1934-. II. Dubois-Fontanelle, Jean Gaspard, 1737-1812. G530.V48 1990 910.4'5dc20 90-33552 CIP The University of West Florida Press is a member of University Presses of Florida, the scholarly publishing agency of the State University System of Florida. Books are selected for publication by faculty editorial committees at each of Florida's nine public universities: Florida A&M University (Tallahassee), Florida Atlantic University (Boca Raton), Florida International University (Miami), Florida State University (Tallahassee), University of Central Florida (Orlando), University of Florida University of Florida (Gainesville), University of North Florida (Jacksonville), University of South Florida (Tampa), University of West Florida (Pensacola). Orders for books published by all member presses should be addressed to University Presses of Florida, 15 NW 15th St., Gainesville, FL 32611. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper.

Page v Contents Acknowledgments vii Introduction 1 Editor's Note 35 Narrative 37 Translator's Notes 127 Appendix 1 139 Appendix 2 141

Page vii Acknowledgments Without considerable help, my wish to produce a new edition and translation of Viaud's Naufrage would have remained nothing but an intriguing fantasy. My first acquaintance with the work was in Elizabeth Griffith's quaint translation on microcard in the microfilm center of Auburn University's library. Its curator, Harmon Stratton, has been unfailingly helpful in finding arcane materials for me. My subsequent conviction that Naufrage was more than an exercise in harrowing fiction came from serendipity. While searching for material on the economy of British West Florida in a castle in Scotland, I happened upon George Swettenham's letter to James Grant describing Viaud's rescue. I am most grateful to Oliver Russell of Ballindalloch Castle, Banffshire, for allowing me access to the Grant Papers. The wise and critical eye of Dr. Robert Rea of Auburn did much to improve my introduction to this edition of Naufrage. James P. Dyehouse of the University of West Florida possesses intimate local knowledge of the area where Viaud claimed to have wandered, and he detected several implausibilities in the Frenchman's tale, which would otherwise have escaped me. Thanks to Dr. James Servies's encyclopedic command of Floridian bibliography, my attention was drawn to the valuable testimony of Roger Lamb about Viaud's adventures. I am grateful too to the staffs of various libraries and depositories in Europe: the British Library, London; the Public Record Office, Kew; the Taylorian Institute, Oxford; the Municipal Archives, Bordeaux; the Bibliothque Nationale, Paris; and the archives of the Department of Charente-

Page viii Infrieure at La Rochelle. Similarly courteous and helpful were the staffs of the Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, the Center for Louisiana Studies, Lafayette, and the New York Historical Society. My research trips to England, France, Scotland, Louisiana, and New York would have been severely hampered had it not been for financial assistance from the Auburn University Humanities Fund and from an Auburn University grant in aid. The work of translation was speeded by Auburn's allowing me a professional improvement leave in the fall of 1987.

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