François Édouard Raynal
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in French. (May 2016) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
|
François Édouard Raynal (8 July 1830 – 28 April 1898) was a French sailor best known for his involvement in the Grafton shipwreck at the Auckland Islands. He wrote a popular account of the voyage, Les Naufragés, ou Vingt mois sur un récif des îles Auckland which was translated into English as Wrecked on a Reef.[1]
The 2003 English edition of Wrecked On A Reef (1869) has additional appendices by French scholar Christiane Mortelier who presents a case for the influence of Raynal's book on Jules Verne's The Mysterious Island. Wrecked On A Reef was very popular at the time of publication, being translated into multiple languages. According to Mortelier, Verne read Raynal's account and loosely based his novel on the true life story of shipwreck, survival, privation, and ultimate rescue.
References
Footnotes
Sources
- Raynal, F. É. (1874). Wrecked on a Reef. London: T. Nelson & Sons. OCLC 560998380.
- Articles needing translation from French Wikipedia
- Use dmy dates from June 2019
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNE identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with KBR identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with PortugalA identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- 1830 births
- 1898 deaths
- French sailors
- History of the New Zealand outlying islands