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Life under the palms : the sublime world of the anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner / Paul van der Velde ; translated by Liesbeth Bennink.
Van Pelt Library G236.H33 V4513 2020
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Velde, Paul van der, author.
- Standardized Title:
- Wie onder palmen leeft. English
- Language:
- Dutch
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Travelers--Netherlands--Biography.
- Travelers.
- Haafner, Jacob.
- Netherlands.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- x, 165 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Sublime world of the anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner
- Place of Publication:
- Singapore : Ridge Books, [2020]
- Language Note:
- Translated from Dutch.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: Haafner and His Times
- Reactions to Haafner
- My Journey to Haafner
- ch. 1 A Wandering Existence
- Carefree
- First Adventure in Porto Praya
- The Cape of Good Hope
- Adultery and Torture
- Khoikhoi Love Beads
- Famous Lost Son
- The Umbilical Cord Unravels
- ch. 2 Struggle for Life
- The Sleeping Sickness of Sardis
- Graveyard of the Europeans
- Willem Koelbier: The Bloodthirsty Tiger
- At the Pen in Nagapatnam
- The Sadrasidyll
- Advanced Science
- Sadras Lost, Disastrous Cost
- ch. 3 Where can Our Soul Shelter?
- Famine in Madras
- The Foolish Count Bonvoux
- Anna's Embrace
- The Palmetto
- Oh, That Wanderlust!
- Baker George
- Most Reasonable of the Unreasonable
- Mestizo among the Mestizos
- Delusion and Pimberab
- Forsaken by Anna
- ch. 4 Passion for India
- Merchant in Calcutta
- The Impetuous Julius Soubise
- Sunrise
- Mamia!
- Snakebite
- Lily of the South
- In the Land of the Dodo
- Heaven and Earth Perished
- Chapters Languishing in Europe
- Kees, Kees! Shouted the Orange Rabble
- A Full Purse
- The Haafner Case
- The Dutch Society of Sciences
- Laureate of the Teylers Theological Society
- The God of One's Tyrants
- A Shot across the Bow of the Mission
- Phallus Worship
- Farewell Lovable Objects!.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Hiram G. Haney Fund.
- ISBN:
- 9789813250826
- 9813250828
- OCLC:
- 1090201311
- Publisher Number:
- 99985842033
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