The Navigator: The Log of John Anderson, Voc Pilot-Major, 1640-1643

Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-90-04-18931-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 281 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: European Expansion and Indigen

Captain John Anderson served in the Dutch East India Company (VOC) as ‘Pilot-Major’ in a fleet of ships that set sail from Europe in December 1640, and returned with his ships in July 1643. This was Anderson’s fourth voyage to the East Indies.
His journey took three years during which time he safely brought a VOC fleet to Java and home again through tempests and full-scale battles with the Portuguese at sea.
In this, the first-ever edition of Anderson’s Journal, the editors have complemented his own words with chapters discussing the author’s contributions to the History of Warfare in Asia, Maritime Navigation and Early Modern Travel Writing.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in Travel History, Navigation, the History of Europeans in Asia, South and South East Asian History, Dutch VOC History and the History of Scotland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, John

Teensma, Ben

Enthoven, Victor

Weitere Mitwirkende

Enthoven, Victor

Murdoch, Steve

Williamson, Eila

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Geschichte der Schifffahrt

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor’s Preface
List of Illustrations
Preface
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Measures, Currencies, and Mileage
Maps

PART ONE: HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION

1. A Many-headed Hydra: An Introduction to the Dutch East India Company
2. Introduction to the Log-book of Captain John Anderson
3. The Log as a Reflection of the Practice of Navigation
4. War in the Log of John Anderson
5. Scots and the East Indies: A Background to the Voyage of John Anderson

PART TWO: THE LOG-BOOK OF CAPTAIN JOHN ANDERSON

Editorial Practice
The Log-book of Captain John Anderson

Appendices
Appendice A. Foreigners in the VOC, 1602-1660
Appendice B. Scots in East India Service, 1600-1660
Appendice C. Two letters of Drummer-Major James Spens, VOC Soldier, 1631-1632

Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Victor Enthoven is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy and senior researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam. His research interest include maritime, naval and military history and European expansion history, both west and east. His major publications include, co-edited with Johannes Postma, Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817 (Brill, 2003).

Steve Murdoch is Professor in History at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include migration from the British Isles in the seventeenth century and the history of maritime warfare. His major publications include Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, 2006) and The Terror of the Seas: Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 (Brill, 2010).

Eila Williamson, Ph.D. (1998) in Scottish History, University of Glasgow, is currently a freelance researcher. She is Editor of The Innes Review, the journal of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association and co-editor of Saints' Cults in the Celtic World (Boydell, 2009).