![]() ![]() Stories for a fee to someone wielding ‘a more polished pen than mine’ ( ‘een beschaafder Penne, als de mijne’), who readied them for print. ![]() Ga naar voetnoot 3 The work pays particularly attention to parts of the world less familiar to Dutch contemporary readers, such as Madagascar, Thailand, Taiwan, Japan, the Aegean Sea, the Volga river, Livonia, or the Caucasus and Reysen is both adventure tale and chorography, which renders an account of the travels undertaken by the sailmaker Jan Struys to the Far East, Mediterranean, Muscovy, and Iran between 16. By means of this new book, this author was able to continue the project of a chorographic overview of Africa and Asia upon which he and otherĪuthors publishing with Van Meurs and company had embarked in the middle of the 1660 s. Ga naar voetnoot 1 Instead, the anonymous author for whom Struys fronted was a skilled writer who had previously proved his mettle for one of the two publishers, Jacob van Meurs (1617/18-1680). ![]() 1694) could hardly have written the very successful book Drie aanmerkelijke en seer rampspoedige Reysen door Italien, Griekenlandt, Lijflandt, Moscovien, Tartarijen, Meden, Persien, Oost-Indien, Japan, en verscheyden andere Gewesten that appeared in Amsterdam in 1676 (see figures 1 and 2), for he was illiterate at the time of his second marriage in 1668. The Making of Drie aanmerkelijke en seer rampspoedige reysen: A Case of Early Modern Ghostwritingĭespite the appearance of his name on its cover and in the introduction, the North-Holland sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys (c. ![]()
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