Download or read book Histoire Naturelle Des Indes written by and published by . This book was released on 1996-07-30 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1983, The Pierpont Morgan Library received an extraordinary volume whose beautiful paintings & descriptions document the plant, animal, & human life of the Caribbean late in the 16th cent. Spaniards had already begun to exert influence over the indigenous people of the area when explorers from England & France arrived, among them Sir Francis Drake. This book, known as The Drake Manuscript,Ó & titled Histoire Naturelle des IndesÓ when it was bound in the 18th cent., gives us a wonderful picture of daily life at the time of Drake's many visits to the region. The work presented, here in full facsimile for the first time, is from the hands of two or more artists, most likely French, & the descriptions are French as well. Heavy coated stock in full-color.