Dutch East India Company Shipbuilding: The Archaeological Study of Batavia and Other Seventeenth-Century VOC Ships (Ed Rachal Foundation Nautical Archaeology Series)
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| Rating | : | 4.96 (621 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1623491797 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 328 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-05 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
"Five Stars" according to Gero Levaggi. A spectacular work of arqueology. Very good
Over two hundred tables, charts, drawings, and photographs are included.. Wendy van Duivenvoorde’s five-year study was aimed at reconstructing the hull of Batavia, the only excavated remains of an early seventeenth-century Indiaman to have been raised and conserved in a way that permits detailed examination, using data retrieved from the archaeological remains, interpreted in the light of company archives, ship journals, and Dutch texts on shipbuilding of this period. Eight months into its maiden voyage to the Indies, the Dutch East India Company’s Batavia sank on June 4, 1629 on Morning Reef in the Houtman Abrolhos off the western coast of Australia
Her book is technically exact, well-illustrated, and will be of great relevance to maritime archaeologists and maritime scholars. She does what we all want archaeologists to do---she breathes life into the world of the vessels we look over the shoulders of the Dutch as they design, build and sail extraordinary vessels such as Batavia across the known world in search of the East Indies trade."--Alistair Paterson, Professor and Discipline Chair of archaeology, University of Western Australia. "Wendy van Duivenvoorde has written a detailed and scholarly account of Dutch ships of the East Indies trade