Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612) Download

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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0904180689

Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612) (Hakluyt Society Third Series, 5)

In the summer of 1630, Pieter Van den Broecke returned to Amsterdam after completing his fifth voyage overseas as a commercial agent for various Dutch companies who were then expanding their worldwide trading networks. Get Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612) literature books for free.
Van den Broecke used this homecoming to compose a lengthy manuscript describing his experiences, and to arrange its publication in 1634. However, this published version presented his account in a highly abridged and significantly altered form. The present edition offers an English translation of those parts of Van den Broecke's original manuscript which describe the four trading voyages he made to Africa in the early-17th century. Van den Broecke's manuscript describes in detail the communities he encountered in West Africa and Check Pieter Van Den Broecke's Journal of Voyages to Cape Verde, Guinea and Angola (1605-1612) our best literature books for 2013. All books are available in pdf format and downloadable from rapidshare, 4shared, and mediafire.