India: 'Vishnu sleeping on Adhi Shesha, his snake bed, in the infinite sea of milk'. Illustration by Pierre Sonnerat (1748-1814), 1782. Pierre Sonnerat (1748-1814) was a French naturalist and explorer who made several voyages to southeast Asia between 1769 and 1781. He published this two-volume account of his voyage of 1774-81 in 1782. Volume 1 deals exclusively with India, whose culture Sonnerat very much admired, and is especially noteworthy for its extended discussion of religion in India, Hinduism in particular. The book is illustrated with engravings based on Sonnerat’s drawings.

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