The Fiction & Reality of Jan Struys A

Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676, and was later translated into English, French, German and Russian. This new book depicts the story of its author's life as well as the first singular analysis of the Struys text.

Kees Boterbloem teaches Early Modern and Modern European History at the University of South Florida in Tampa, USA.

From Sailmaker to Celebrity	p. 1
Struys's Youth and Reysen's First Journey	p. 7
The Second Voyage	p. 17
The Dutch Republic	p. 29
The Dutch in Muscovy	p. 42
Muscovy	p. 53
In the Tsar's Service	p. 64
Reysen's Muscovy and Struys's Muscovy	p. 73
The Volga Delta and the Oryoi's Demise	p. 88
A Dutch Slave in Asia	p. 104
Liberation	p. 122
Reysen's Readers	p. 135
Reysen's Creation and its Creators	p. 141
Genre and the Test of Time	p. 150
'Any Soil is the Fatherland for a Courageous Man'	p. 164
Conclusion	p. 172
Notes	p. 181
Bibliography	p. 271
Index	p. 295
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The Fiction & Reality of Jan Struys A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globetrotter

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