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Pieter van den Broecke's journal of voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola, 1605-1612 / Pieter van den Broecke ; translated and edited by J.D. La Fleur.
Van Pelt Library G161 .H2 ser.3 no.5
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Broecke, Pieter van den, 1585-1640.
- Series:
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Third series ; no. 5.
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Third series ; no. 5
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Broecke, Pieter van den, 1585-1640--Travel--Africa, West.
- Broecke, Pieter van den.
- Broecke, Pieter van den, 1585-1640.
- Travel.
- West Africa.
- Guinea--Description and travel.
- Guinea.
- Angola--Description and travel.
- Angola.
- Cabo Verde--Description and travel.
- Cabo Verde.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 139 pages : illustrations (some color), 1 color portrait, maps ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Hakluyt Society, 2000.
- Language Note:
- Translated from the Dutch.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Prefatory Note: Pieter van den Broecke's Manuscript xi
- The Present Edition: Style of Presentation, Editing, and Annotation 18
- The Text
- 1. 'First Voyage to Cape Verde' 23
- 2. 'First Voyage to Angola' 43
- 3. 'Second Voyage to Angola' 69
- 4. 'Third Voyage to Angola' 83
- A. Weights, Measures, and Currency 107
- B. Extant Editions of the Manuscript 109.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- ISBN:
- 0904180689
- OCLC:
- 45326910
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