1st Edition

Memorable Description of the East Indian Voyage 1618-25

By Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe Copyright 2005
200 Pages
by Routledge

196 Pages
by Routledge

200 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1929. 'Fire and shipwreck, fights ashore and afloat, the pitting of ceaseless patience and resource against fate, these things make one understand why the book, famous in its original tongue, has but to be savoured in translation to gain an equal popularity.' Manchester Guardian Bontekoe's East Indian Voyage was one of the most popular books in which the Dutch seventeenth... Read more
Introduction; Chapter 1 Journal or Notable History of the East-Indian Voyages of Willem Ysbrantsz Bontekoe of Hoorn; NOTES; Index;

Biography

WILLEM YSBRANTSZ BONTEKOE