The fiction and reality of Jan Struys : a seventeenth-century Dutch globetrotter
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The fiction and reality of Jan Struys : a seventeenth-century Dutch globetrotter
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
- : hardback
Available at 1 libraries
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Bibliography: p. 271-294
Includes index
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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.
Table of Contents
Introduction: From Sailmaker to Celebrity Struys's Youth and Reysen's First Journey The Second Voyage The Dutch Republic The Dutch in Muscovy Muscovy In the Tsar's Service Reysen's Muscovy and Struys's Muscovy The Volga Delta and the Oryol's Demise A Dutch Slave in Asia Liberation Reysen's Readers Reysen's Creation and its Creators Genre and the Test of Time 'Any Soil is the Fatherland for a Courageous Man' Conclusion Bibliography
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