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The travels of Pieter Albert Bik : writings from the Dutch colonial world of the early nineteenth century / Mikko Toivanen.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Leiden : Leiden University Press, (c)2017.Description: 1 online resource (vi, 283 pages) : illustrations, facsimiles, 1 portraitContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9789400602915
  • 940060291X
Other title:
  • Writings from the Dutch colonial world of the early nineteenth century
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • DJ219 .T738 2017
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Travel and travel writing in the nineteenth century -- The global tourist Pieter Albert Bik -- Part II. The manuscript of Pieter Albert Bik. A note on the translation -- Brief notes / by Pieter Albert Bik -- Journal kept on the court trip to Jedo in the year 1844 / by P.A. Bik -- Notes of P.A. Bik, made on the journey from Batavia to Holland, over the so-called land route.
Summary: The unpublished writings of a Dutch colonial official, Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) are studied and contextualized in this book. The remarkable autobiographical manuscript of Bik, which is here presented in English translation with annotations, provides a unique glimpse of the wide horizons of the world of Dutch colonialism, tracing his many journeys in Europe, the Dutch East Indies and Japan as well as across the oceans in the first half of the nineteenth century. In this work, Mikko Toivanen draws a parallel between Bik's colonial travels and the contemporary emergence of a new kind of travel within Europe, showing that the culture of colonial travel was intimately connected with notions of leisure and tourism being developed back home at the time.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Part I. A colonial life in travels. Pieter Albert Bik and his writings -- Travel and travel writing in the nineteenth century -- The global tourist Pieter Albert Bik -- Part II. The manuscript of Pieter Albert Bik. A note on the translation -- Brief notes / by Pieter Albert Bik -- Journal kept on the court trip to Jedo in the year 1844 / by P.A. Bik -- Notes of P.A. Bik, made on the journey from Batavia to Holland, over the so-called land route.

The unpublished writings of a Dutch colonial official, Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) are studied and contextualized in this book. The remarkable autobiographical manuscript of Bik, which is here presented in English translation with annotations, provides a unique glimpse of the wide horizons of the world of Dutch colonialism, tracing his many journeys in Europe, the Dutch East Indies and Japan as well as across the oceans in the first half of the nineteenth century. In this work, Mikko Toivanen draws a parallel between Bik's colonial travels and the contemporary emergence of a new kind of travel within Europe, showing that the culture of colonial travel was intimately connected with notions of leisure and tourism being developed back home at the time.

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