| Description |
1 online resource (1 PDF (vi, 283 pages)) : illustrations |
| Series |
Colonial and global history through Dutch sources |
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Colonial and global history through Dutch sources.
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| Contents |
Part I.A colonial life in travels -- 1. Pieter Albert Bik and his writings -- 2. Travel and travel writing in the nineteenth century -- 3. The global tourist Pieter Albert Bik -- part II. The manuscript of Pieter Albert Bik -- A note on the translation -- Brief notes by Pieter Albert Bik, born in Amsterdam on the 18th of July 1798, since the year 1813 -- Journal kept on the court trip to Jedo in the year 1844, by P.A. Bik, Chief Factor of the Dutch trade in Japan -- Notes of P.A. Bik, made on the journey from Batavia to Holland, over the so-called land route |
| Summary |
Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) was a Dutch colonial official whose work took him all over the world, including travels throughout Europe, the Dutch East Indies, and Japan. This book presents for the first time in English his autobiographical writings about those travels, which Bik never published in his lifetime. Presented here with annotations to set his observations in context, Bik's accounts offer a unique glimpse of the wide horizons of the world of Dutch colonialism in the first half of the nineteenth century, while editor Mikko Toivanen also draws interesting parallels between Bik's travels and the contemporary emergence of tourist travel in Europe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-275) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Bik, Pieter Albert
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Colonial administrators -- Netherlands -- Biography
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Colonial administrators
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Netherlands
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Toivanen, Mikko, author, editor, translator, writer of added commentary
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| ISBN |
9789400602915 |
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940060291X |
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