The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys: A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globetrotter
Description
Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676, and was later translated into English, French, German and Russian. This new book depicts the story of its author's life as well as the first singular analysis of the Struys text.
Keywords
NETHERLANDS_BIOGRAPHYVOYAGES AND TRAVELSRUSSIA (FEDERATION)_HISTORYTRAVELERS
2008Book
Author(s)Kees Boterbloem
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9780230553187
LanguageEnglish
