History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 12 Carolinians drift to Guam, 1715-28

Levesque, Rodrigue. History of Micronesia: A Collection of Source Documents: Vol. 12 Carolinians drift to Guam, 1715-28. 12. Gatineau, Québec: Lévesque Publications. ISBN 978-0-920201-12-1.

Abstract: Volume 12 (HOM.12) contains 66 chapters totaling 189 documents and 20 illustrations. The illustration above shows the details of the construction of a Carolinian voyaging canoe. The rear endpaper of this volume shows a very rare map of the Caroline Islands which I found in Prague in 1997. A reliable translation of Father Cantova’s report on the Carolines appears in this volume. We have two more English pirates coming through the Marianas during this period: Captains Clipperton and Shelvocke. The trials of Governor Pimentel and of the French captain Boislor show how the Spanish justice system worked in the colonies. The contents of HOM were compiled, translated, edited and annotated by Rodrigue Levesque. Rod located and made novel translations of thousands of documents between 1992 and 2002. These were organized in forty massive volumes, with only the first twenty being printed in physical, hardbound form. In 2022, the US nonprofit Habele obtained the copyrights to the full History of Micronesia series with the aim of offering free and navigable access to the public.