Person geographer historian writer

Pascoal Avezac Macaya

1799–1875

geographer · historian · writer

Main article Avezac Short entry on the French geographer and historian Pascoal Avezac Macaya (1799–1875), whose work Iles d'Afrique gave a broad survey of the Madeira archipelago. The Elucidário judges it flawed in places but valuable, and notes that a translation appeared in the Diario do Comercio in 1909.

D'Avezac was a French geographer and historian whose work Iles d'Afrique gave a broad survey of the Madeira archipelago. The Elucidário judges it flawed in places but valuable; a translation appeared in the Diario do Comercio in 1909.

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Deserta Grande or simply Deserta (island) — Foreign writer wrongly credited with claiming a population on the Deserta.

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