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The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys

A Seventeenth-Century Dutch Globetrotter

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Authors:
  1. Kees Boterbloem

    1. Department of History, University of South Florida, USA

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vi
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  2. Introduction: From Sailmaker to Celebrity

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 1-6

  3. Struys’s Youth and Reysen’s First Journey

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 7-16

  4. The Second Voyage

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 17-28

  5. The Dutch Republic

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 29-41

  6. The Dutch in Muscovy

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 42-52

  7. Muscovy

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 53-63

  8. In the Tsar’s Service

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 64-72

  9. Reysen’s Muscovy and Struys’s Muscovy

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 73-87

  10. The Volga Delta and the Oryol’s Demise

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 88-103

  11. A Dutch Slave in Asia

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 104-121

  12. Liberation

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 122-134

  13. Reysen’s Readers

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 135-140

  14. Reysen’s Creation and its Creators

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 141-149

  15. Genre and the Test of Time

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 150-163

  16. ‘Any Soil is the Fatherland for a Courageous Man’

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 164-171

  17. Conclusion

    • Kees Boterbloem
    Pages 172-180

  18. Back Matter

    Pages 181-315
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About this book

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.

Reviews

'Joins the best traditions of archival detective work with the latest in cultural studies to show who generated this seventeenth-century survey of the "Other" and how this work anticipated modernity - in its Orientalist "gaze" as well as in its capitalist inspirations. This combination makes The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys a significant achievement not only to studies of early modern Russia, but also to the history of modernity and Europe's encounter with the non-Christian world.' - Daniel H. Kaiser, Grinnell College Grinnell, USA

'We should thank Kees for telling us the tale in this fascinating account.' Marshall Poe, New Books In History

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of History, University of South Florida, USA

    Kees Boterbloem

About the author

KEES BOTERBLOEM is a graduate of the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands and McGill University, and teaches Early Modern and Modern European History at the University of South Florida in Tampa, USA. He is the author of Life and Death under Stalin (1999) and The Life and Times of Andrei Zhdanov (2004).

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