Author: BALEN, W.J. VAN,
Title: Zes Nederlandse Antillen. Een overzicht van ons Gebiedsdeel Curaçao. [Eerste druk/first edition].
Description: Deventer, Van Hoeve, [..], 1941. Small 8°., original coloured thin boards, title-label on front boards. 96pp. Frontispiece (sketch-map of the dutch territory of the Antilles), black/white ills. on 4 photo-plates, table of contents. [Over Oost en West, series]. Supplies popular but well documented on the territory of the Dutch Antilles, West-Indies. Geography, geological features, local population, lical dialects, early colonization by the dutch, means of subsistence, petroleum-industry, geological featurs of the interior, &c. All chapters deal with the leeward islands: Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao, except final chapter dealing with the windward islands: Saba, St. Martin and St. Eustatia. Good copy. (some occasional foxing to front margins of bookblock, superficial puncture to lower outer boards).

Keywords: caribbean west indies history colonization geography geology dialect language subsistence petroleum aruba bonaire curaçao west indies antilles leeward windward islands colonialism territory dutch