The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789)
Download or Read eBook The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789) PDF written by Alexander J. P. Raat and published by Uitgeverij Verloren. This book was released on 2010 with total page 832 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Alexander J. P. Raat |
| Publisher | : Uitgeverij Verloren |
| Total Pages | : 832 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9789087041519 |
| ISBN-13 | : 9087041519 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Life of Governor Joan Gideon Loten (1710-1789) by : Alexander J. P. Raat
Book excerpt: Details Loten's personal history and his professional career as a servant of the Dutch East Indies Company. It contains an inventory of his natural history drawings in the London Natural History Museum and Teylers Museum at Haarlem -- a valuable treasure of eighteenth-century natural history of Sri Lanka and Indonesia. Loten's writings, quoted extensively in this biography, cover early-eighteenth-century narrow-minded, provincial Utrecht in the Dutch Republic, the exotic Dutch East Indies, and cosmopolitan London in the latter part of the century.
