The vindication of François Leguat : a comprehensive appraisal of Leguat's natural history observations in the Island of Rodrigues, Indian Ocean (1708) and a thorough refutation of his detractors from Buffon and Cuvier to the late Professor Geoffroy Atkinson and his supporters / by Alfred North-Coombes.

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North-Coombes, Alfred, 1907-

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