https://doi.org/10.21697/cl.2022.33.2.3
The article discusses Kazimierz Lux’s travel entitled The description of the island of
San-Domingo, which was published „Biblioteka Warszawska” in 1854 (v. 4, p. 197–
223). It is a paraliterary notation of the stay of the „Polish pirate” in the Antilles,
where, as a soldier of the French 114 th brigade formed by Napoleon, he suppressed
the slave uprising. Lux’s text is a fairly detailed study of San-Domingo’s climatic, geographical and living conditions, plant crops and livestock; however, above all, it is a fascinating record of a Pole’s encounter from the early nineteenth century
with the exoticism of the second hemisphere.
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