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Somewhere between October 1673 and July 1675 Jan Struys’s tales came to the attention of the Amsterdam publishers Jacob van Meurs and Johan van Someren, who decided to publish a version of them as a book.1 Before 1675, both partners had published descriptive cosmographies, but neither had ventured yet in the direction of adventurous travel accounts. This chapter will investigate the kind of reading audience they tried to reach with Reysen and the other two books of their trilogy, van der Heiden’s Vervarelyke schipbreuk (Calamitous Shipwreck) and Schouten’s Oost Indische Voyagie (East Indian Voyage). Chapters 12 and 13 address the manner in which Reysen was actually composed under these publishers’ auspices in 1675 and 1676.
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Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews and Shamela, ed. Judith Hawley (London, 1999), 198; Brenner, ‘Mythos,’ 32–3; Luke 15: 11–32 King James Bible.
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Boterbloem, K. (2008). Reysen’s Readers. In: The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583658_12
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