Animals in Dutch Travel Writing, 1800-present

Rick Honings; Esther Beek

doi:10.1515/9789400604476

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Edition: 1/2023
Copyright Year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-90-8728-402-2
ISBN-Online: 978-94-006-0447-6
Publisher: Leiden University Press, Leiden
Language: English
Pages: 297
Product Type: Edited Book

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1. Table of Contents
2. Acknowledgements
IntroductionPages 9 - 26
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1. Chapter 1. Roaring Tigers, Grunting Buffalo, and Slithering Snakes Along the Javanese Road: A Comparative Examination of Dutch and Indonesian Travel WritingPages 29 - 78
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2. Chapter 2. Naming the World: Pieter Bleeker’s Travels and the Challenges of Archipelagic BiodiversityPages 79 - 98
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3. Chapter 3. Empire as Horseplay? Writing the Java Pony in the Nineteenth Century through the Lenses of Mobility, Modernity, and RacePages 99 - 118
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4. Chapter 4. The Sound of the Tokkeh and the Tjitjak: The Representation of the Tokay Gekko and Common House Gekko in Dutch-Indies Travel LiteraturePages 119 - 138
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5. Chapter 5. Monkeys as Metaphor: Ecologies of Representation in Dutch Travel Writing about Suriname from the Colonial PeriodPages 139 - 158
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6. Chapter 6. Becoming a Beast in the Long Run: Travelling Perpetrators and the Animal as Metaphor for ViolencePages 159 - 180
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1. Chapter 7. ‘Do You Really Think a Donkey Has No Heart?’ Betsy Perk and her CadettePages 183 - 196
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2. Chapter 8. Naturalist Lessons from the North: Human and Non-Human Animals in Niko Tinbergen’s Eskimoland (1934) and Jac. P. Thijsse’s Texel (1927)Pages 197 - 222
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3. Chapter 9. The Land of the Living Fossils: Animals in Travelogues for Dutch-Australian Emigrants, 1950-1970Pages 223 - 240
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4. Chapter 10. A Lesson in Happiness: Animals and Nostalgia in the Travel Stories of Leonhard HuizingaPages 241 - 262
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5. Chapter 11. Noble Horse and Lazy Pig: Frank Westerman and Yvonne Kroonenberg in Quest of Domestic AnimalsPages 263 - 288
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Notes on the ContributorsPages 289 - 292 Download chapter (PDF)
IndexPages 293 - 296 Download chapter (PDF)