Jon Olafsson Inger Barnes (3 results)

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Voyage to India, 1622-25, A This book is in very good condition and will be shipped within 24 hours of ordering. The cover may have some limited signs of wear but the pages are clean, intact and the spine remains undamaged. This book has clearly been well maintained and looked after thus far. Money back guarantee if you are not satisfied. See all our books here, order more than 1 book and get discounted shipping. .…

Paperback. Condition: Very Good. Shipped within 24 hours from our UK warehouse. Clean, undamaged book with no damage to pages and minimal wear to the cover. Spine still tight, in very good condition. Remember if you are not happy, you are covered by our 100% money back guarantee.

Softcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: N/A. xxx, 190pp, with occasional black and white illustrations in text. Laminated stiff card covers. 8vo. Very gentle edge wear to card covers; a previous owner's details neatly inked on the first leaf, else neat, clean, bright and tight. A unique tale of life below deck in a 17th century East Indiaman, told by the Icelander Jon Olafsson. Olafsson departed for India in 1622, and his memoir documents the global voyages under the service of King Christian IV of Denmark: he spent several years at Fort Dansborg, a newly established Dutch trading colony on India's Coromandel Coast, from where he recounts from an unusual ordinary man's perspective local Indian village crafts, religious customs and garrison politics. Mads Rasmussen, whose own account of his voyages is also contained in this volume, served alongside Olafsson at Fort Dansborg, this time told from the perspective of a middle class churchman.…