Timeline
Lifetime:
1739 -
1780
Passed: ≈
244 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville
Books by Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville
Travels to Oaxaca
Adventure
History
Travel
Biography
Science
Adventure
Travel
Espionage
Plants
Agriculture
France
Botany
Mexico
Oaxaca
Cochineal
Travels to Oaxaca is an adventurous and engaging account of Nicolas-Joseph Thiéry de Menonville's daring mission to steal cochineal insects and their cacti hosts from Spanish Mexico and transplant them to the French Caribbean. The book provides a fas...