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Reading book about the Dutch explorers

BRINKMAN, J.
Verzameling van korte Nederlandsche reisbeschrijvingen, een leesboek voor de jeugd.





Leyden, D. du Mortier en Zoon, 1823. Sm.8vo. Orig. wrappers. 118 pp.

Rare geographical reading-book for children by J. Brinkman, a school-teacher at 's Gravezande. The author explains in the introductory chapter that the stories are told by father Braafhart (Goodheart) to his two sons, Willem and Cornelis, eleven and nine years old. The teacher at school, called Jeugdvriend (Youthfriend), had read with the children the general travel book published by the Educational Society "Tot Nut van 't Algemeen", but as the children had much pleasure in learning they wanted to hear more. Happily the father possessed a well-provided library and agreed to tell the children about the Dutch voyages he had books about in his library.
So the children were told about the voyage by Van Heemskerk, Barendsz. and De Rijp to the North, the circumnavigation by Olivier van Noort, the voyage by Nicolaas de Graaf along the Ganges, the circumnavigation by Jacob Roggeveen, the voyage by Jacob Haafner along the coast of Coromandel to Ceylon, and the voyage through Africa by Frederik von Bouchenröder. In spite of the elegant introduction, the book itself is a typical school book, published inexpensively, printed on cheap paper and without illustrations.

Good copy.- (A child's ms. entries on inside front cover, dated 1826; sl. dog-eared).
Not in Cat. De Koning, Coll. Caljé-Van Gulik, etc.; Saalmink p. 306 (lists one copy only, in the Amsterdam University Library).

Related Subjects: 19th Century  Africa  Circumnavigation  Discovery & Exploration  Dutch  East Indies  Education  Geography  Voyages 

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