Journal of Jasper Danckaerts, 1679-1680 - Brossura

Danckaerts, Jasper

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ISBN 10: 1616401826 ISBN 13: 9781616401825

Casa editrice: Cosimo Inc, 2010

Riassunto

In 1679 and again in 1683, Dutchman JASPER DANCKAERTS (b. 1639) journeyed twice to the New World, with companion Peter Sluyter, on behalf of their Labadist Protestant community, in search of a suitable place to establish a colony of their sect. Danckaerts's diary of the voyages was lost until American historian HENRY C. MURPHY (1810-1882) stumbled across the manuscript in a bookstore in Amsterdam. Murphy's translation forms the basis for the 1913 edition of Danckaerts's journal, of which this is a replica. Edited by American historians BARTLETT BURLEIGH JAMES (1867-1953) and J. FRANKLIN JAMESON (1859-1937), this is an extraordinary firsthand document of the settling of colonial America, and of an obscure, mostly forgotten episode in the religious history of the New World. Replete with closely observed details of ocean travel and social conditions in New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and Boston, it makes for a delightful read for lovers of 17th-century colonial America.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Cosimo Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1616401826
• ISBN 13: 9781616401825
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 352
• Redattore: James Bartlett Burleigh