Voyages To The East Indies

About the Book:-The authors have made a bold attempt to unravel the truth behind the Voyages to the East Indies. Old books of voyages and travels do not necessarily importance of the voyage, or the celebrity of the traveller. A humble trader or seaman, going about his daily business, will often preserve a hundred details of the life abroad ship and in the ports he visited that would have been passed over silently by the envoy intent on great affairs, or the man of letters straining after the picturesque. They were both minor employees of the Dutch East India Company. The one a surgeon, the other a volunteer who went out as a ship’s steward, and filled various subordinate posts, ashore and afloat, in the East Indies. Both were shrewd observant men, keenly interested in everything new and strange, and their accounts of life on board a Dutch East Indiaman. The book is the product of study of this journey. The subject matter of the book is good and interesting. About the Author:-christopher Schweitzer was a German who became a soldier with the VOC. He travelled to Batavia, Java, and Ceylon. He wrote an account of his service in the VOC which was translated into Dutch and English. The original publication was illustrated with engravings after Schweitzer’s own drawings. The Title 'Voyages To The East Indies written/authored/edited by Christopher Fryke, Christopher Schweitzer', published in the year 2020. The ISBN 9788121242035 is assigned to the Paperback version of this title. This book has total of pp. 338 (Pages). The publisher of this title is Gyan Publishing House. This Book is in English. The subject of this book is . Size of the book is 13.34 x 21.59 cms Vol:-