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 century public delighted and it
continued to be reprinted throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth
centuries.
As well as providing an illuminating insight into the machinations
of the Merchants and Directors of the East India Company and the
often troubled waters of international trade and diplomacy, the
account is a very personal one: of a human being battling against
elemental forces, at tremendous odds, tenaciously holding on to
life and coming through in the end.
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