Author: HAAFNER, Jacob.
Title: Lotgevallen op eene reize van Madras over Tranquebaar naar het eiland Ceilon. 2e druk.
Description: Amsterdam, G.J.A. Beijerinck, 1826. Sm 8vo. Original printed boards (rebacked), uncut. With engraved title depicting Haafner's arrival on the island Caradival and folding plate depicting his meeting with the Jammedaar at Alamparvé after Jacob Haafner by Reinier Vinkeles. VIII,268 pp. Second edition; first published in Amsterdam in 1806. - Travel from Madras to Ceylon in 1806. Jacob Gotfried Haafner (1754 - 1809) was a German-Dutch travel writer who lived in and wrote extensively on India and Sri Lanka. His travelogues were noted for their Romantic undertones, lively descriptions of Indian cultures and peoples, as well as criticisms of European colonialism, slavery, and cultural domination. He mixed up facts, romance and strong prejudices in very readable stories which provide insight into typical English Enlightment views on colonial and Indian society' (Coolhaas p.66-67). Haafner witnessed the Company's death agony and demise, and wrote about it. He has a lively and compelling manner (Nieuwenhuys, Mirror of the Indies, p.21). - (Margin of 1 leaf damaged with some loss of letters). Tiele 433; Cat. NHSM I, p.243; Landwehr, VOC, 347; Goonetileke 2192.

Keywords: Asia Ceylon Sri Lanka Dutch travel India VOC Dutch East India Company