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The Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789-1831 - Scottish Surgeon, Naturalist and British Agent to the Court of Madagascar (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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The Travels of Robert Lyall, 1789-1831 - Scottish Surgeon, Naturalist and British Agent to the Court of Madagascar (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2020)
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This book explores the life of Robert Lyall, surgeon, botanist,
voyager, British Agent to the court of Madagascar. Born the year of
the French Revolution, Lyall grew up in politically radical
Paisley, Scotland, before studying medicine, in Edinburgh,
Manchester, and subsequently St. Petersburg, Russia. His criticism
of the Tsar and Russian aristocracy led to an abrupt departure for
London where Lyall became the voice of liberalism and calls for
political reform, before appointed British Resident Agent in
Madagascar in 1827, representing the interests of the Tory
establishment that he had hitherto so roundly castigated. However,
Lyall discovered that the Malagasy crown had turned against the
British alliance of 1820, his scientific pursuits alienated the
local elite, and his efforts to re-establish British influence
antagonized the queen, Ranavalona I, who accused Lyall of sorcery
and forced him and his burgeoning family to leave for Mauritius
where he died an untimely death, of malaria, in 1831.
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