A very good copy of this exotic imprint. The archipelago St. Pierre et Miquelon is a French territory just to the south of Newfoundland.
Maurice Caperon (1846-1907) was born “on Orléans, he had frequented literary circles in Paris, including the avant-garde journal La Veilleuse, before entering the colonial service as a magistrate. He arrived in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon at the age of 31, and stayed for twenty-eight years …” (Marshall). He became a prominent member of the community, collecting folk tales, writing a history of the islands and contributed this work on hunting - partridge and rabbit, but seals too - and fishing for herring, squid, lobster, trout, cod, and capelan.
Rare: OCLC locates a single copy at Yale. The book was reprinted in 1887 and 1899.
Marshall, B., The French Atlantic … (Liverpool, 2009), p. 129; Thiébaud, 149.
