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In the summer of 1630, Pieter van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam
after completing his fifth voyage overseas as a commercial agent
for various Dutch companies who were then expanding their worldwide
trading networks. Van den Broecke used this homecoming to compose a
lengthy manuscript describing his experiences, and to arrange its
publication in 1634. However, this published version presented his
account in a highly abridged and significantly altered form. The
present edition offers for the first time an English translation of
those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe
the four trading voyages he made to Africa in the early seventeenth
century. His manuscript is an important historical source because
he was among the earliest of Europeans to describe in detail the
communities he encountered in West Africa and Central Africa and to
describe in detail the sophisticated commercial strategies of Dutch
merchants then trading on the Atlantic coast of Africa. This
edition begins with an introductory essay presenting Van den
Broecke's biography and places the writing of the manuscript within
the context of his professional aspirations. The edited translation
of Van den Broecke's narrative is extensively annotated with
reference both to other contemporary accounts and to relevant
modern scholarship.
In the summer of 1630, Pieter van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam
after completing his fifth voyage overseas as a commercial agent
for various Dutch companies who were then expanding their worldwide
trading networks. Van den Broecke used this homecoming to compose a
lengthy manuscript describing his experiences, and to arrange its
publication in 1634. However, this published version presented his
account in a highly abridged and significantly altered form. The
present edition offers for the first time an English translation of
those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe
the four trading voyages he made to Africa in the early seventeenth
century. His manuscript is an important historical source because
he was among the earliest of Europeans to describe in detail the
communities he encountered in West Africa and Central Africa and to
describe in detail the sophisticated commercial strategies of Dutch
merchants then trading on the Atlantic coast of Africa. This
edition begins with an introductory essay presenting Van den
Broecke's biography and places the writing of the manuscript within
the context of his professional aspirations. The edited translation
of Van den Broecke's narrative is extensively annotated with
reference both to other contemporary accounts and to relevant
modern scholarship.
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