A Description of New Netherland
A Description of New Netherland
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press | ISBN: 0803210884 | edition 2008 | PDF | 208 pages | 10,9 mb
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press | ISBN: 0803210884 | edition 2008 | PDF | 208 pages | 10,9 mb
If you've been waiting for centuries for a full translation of Adriaen van der Donck's 1655 work A Description of New Netherland, your wait is over. In this work, edited by Charles T. Gehring and William A. Starna, one of the colony's most astute observers ruminates on flora and fauna (his six-foot-long lobster sounds like the subject of a proverbial fish story), including meditations on "the amazing ways" of beavers and sightings of beached whales near Albany.