Author Of Various Books On Dutch Maritime History
Self-Employed
2015-2020[in Dutch] five bibliophile booklets in the series Maritieme Miniaturen (Maritime Miniatures) on Captain James Cook, sad stories coming from Dutch East India Company ships, exorcism at sea, and the first resident of Mauritius.2014[in Dutch with extended English summary] Verdrinken zonder water [= To drown without water]. Memoirs of Dutch East India Company sailor Jan Ambrosius Hoorn, 1758-1778. Co-written with Piet van Sterkenburg, published by Walburg Pers, Zutphen as volume 113 of the Linschoten-Vereeniging Series [220 pages]2014[in Dutch] Arnold Hoogvliet. Dichter uit Vlaardingen [= small biography of eighteenth century Dutch poet, very famous in his days], published by the Vlaardingen Streekmuseum [40 pages]2009-2014[in Dutch with English summary] Editor and sometimes author of 5-part series "Sailing Letters Journaal", published by Walburg Pers, Zutphen. Contains a vast amount articles on letters and documents captured by English privateers in 1650-18152003[in Dutch] "Kikkertje lief". Letters of Aagje Luijtsen written between 1776 and 1780 to her husband Harmanus Kikkert, mate of the Dutch East India Company, published by Open Boek, Texel [206 pages]2001[in Dutch with English summary] Dodos and Galleons. The Voyage of the ship 'Gelderland' to the East Indies, 1601-1603, published by Walburg Pers, Zutphen as volume 100 of the Linschoten-Vereeniging Series [348 pages]1998PhD thesis in Dutch with English summary: With Friend Guided by God. Postal traffic between The Netherlands and Indonesia in the 17th and 18th Centuries, published by Walburg Pers, Zutphen [287 pages]1998A Concise History of Dutch Mauritius, 1598-1710. A Fruitful and Healthy Land, published by Kegan Paul International, London and New York [126 pages]and a wide variety of articles on Dutch history and literature.