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To My Dear Pieternelletje

Grandfather and Granddaughter in VOC Time, 1710-1720

By: Bea Brommer

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To My Dear Pieternelletje

Grandfather and Granddaughter in VOC Time, 1710-1720

By: Bea Brommer

To my dear Pieternelletje describes a ten-year period in the lives of Pieternella van Hoorn and her grandfather Willem van Outhoorn, former governor-general of the Dutch East Indies. Eleven years old, Pieternella left for Amsterdam and the only contact possible was by mail. Numerous letters have survived and combined with contemporaneous documents, most of them never published before, they offer a vivid and clear picture of their private life and feelings, forming a most welcome addition to official VOC-history. Van Outhoorn not only acted as Pieternella’s mentor while she tried to adjust to her new but unknown fatherland, but also sent her numerous exquisite presents, the greater part of which has been traced and described in full, thus offering new insight in the cultural history of Asia.

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9004293329

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To My Dear Pieternelletje

Grandfather and Granddaughter in VOC Time, 1710-1720

By: Bea Brommer

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To My Dear Pieternelletje

Grandfather and Granddaughter in VOC Time, 1710-1720

By: Bea Brommer

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Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie Comprehensive atlas of the Dutch United East India Company

By: Bea Brommer

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Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie Comprehensive atlas of the Dutch United East India Company

By: Bea Brommer

Containing some 420 pages and approximately 600 facsimile maps, plans and topographical drawings dating from the 17th, 18th and early 19th centuries, most of which have never been published before, this pioneering work offers a complete picture of those parts of mainland Africa which at that time were included in the VOC's charter, e.g. the areas between the west coast of present-day South Africa and the Red Sea. The emphasis in this is obviously on the establishment in 1652 and later expansion of the Cape Colony and its outposts, but by way of an introduction a major section is dedicated to the Company's cartography of the sea routes around Africa from the Netherlands to the Far East, including the various islands in the Atlantic and the India Ocean that Dutch seafarers as a rule called at on their way to the East Indies. In addition, much attention is given to Mauritius, Madagascar and some other, smaller islands in the Indian Ocean, which for shorter or longer periods were also included within the Company's sphere of influence.

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907486130X

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To My Dear Pieternelletje

To My Dear Pieternelletje

To My Dear Pieternelletje

To My Dear Pieternelletje

Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie Comprehensive atlas of the Dutch United East India Company

Grote atlas van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie Comprehensive atlas of the Dutch United East India Company

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