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The Second Voyage

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The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys

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Struys’s second journey in Reysen sees him traverse Italy and the eastern Mediterrean between December 1655 and December 1657.1 Reysen states how Struys departed for Italy in late 1655 after a four-year hiatus ashore about which it is otherwise silent.2 The book had no reason to bore the reader with the rather mundane (and possibly illicit, see below) work as a sailmaker in Amsterdam. Contemporary Dutch and Western European readers were uninterested in the daily lives of society’s underclass, the rabble (Jan Hagel, grauw), unless depicted in a stylized form.3

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    Kees Boterbloem (Professor of History)

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Boterbloem, K. (2008). The Second Voyage. In: The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230583658_3

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