Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xxii, 176 pages)
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map
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0803210884
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0803219393
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9780803210882
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9780803219397
Series Statement:
The Iroquoians and their world
Uniform Title:
Beschryvinge van Nieuvv-Nederlant
Content:
This edition of A Description of New Netherland provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century. Adriaen van der Donck, a graduate of Leiden University in the 1640s, became the law enforcement officer for the Dutch patroonship of Rensselaerswijck, located along the upper Hudson River. His position enabled him to interact extensively with Dutch colonists and the local Algonquians and Iroquoians. An astute observer, detailed recorder, a
Content:
Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Publication history of Adriaen van der Donck's A Description of New Netherland; Map of New Netherland; The country; Of the manners and extraordinary qualities of the original natives of New Netherland; Of the nature, amazing ways, and properties of the beavers; A conversation between adutch patriot and a newnetherlander concerning thecondition of new netherland; Appendix; Notes; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-170) and index
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Translated from the Dutch
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0803210884
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803210882
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Donck, Adriaen van der, 1620-1655 Description of New Netherland Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008
Language:
English
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