Desperate in Saint Martin Notes on Guillaume Coppier

by Gerard M. Hunt


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 10/11/2012

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 388
ISBN : 9781426900426
Format : Hardcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 388
ISBN : 9781426900433
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : N/A
Page Count : 388
ISBN : 9781426900440

About the Book

This book on Guillaume Coppier (1606 – 1674), the early 17th-century French traveler, indentured servant, colonist, mariner, moralist, baroque chronicler, antiquarian, humanist, sometime pirate and slaver of sorts, is essentially a reading of Coppier, the man and his chronicle. Coppier’s Histoire et voyage des Indes Occidentales, et de plusieurs autres régions maritimes, & esloignées (History and Voyage to the West Indies and to Several Other Maritime and Faraway Regions) was published in Lyon in 1645. Given its objective and context, this effort—part amateur historiography and translation and part novice commentary and interpretation—is also a survey of past appraisals of Coppier’s chronicle. Like all such endeavors, this essay informs on the essayist; it is a sort of voyage, and a long one at that.


About the Author

Gérard M. Hunt, a native St. Martiner, is a former High School Teacher. He was schooled in public school in Saint-Martin. He continued his education in the U.S.A. and in Quebec, Canada. He taught French at Western Laval High School, and at Chomedey Polyvalent High School in Laval, Quebec. He also taught at Macdonald High School in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue, Quebec, at Milton Peters College in Sint Maarten, at the Lycée des Iles du Nord and at the Collège du Mont des Accords in Saint-Martin. He is the author of Rambling on Saint Martin - A Witnessing.