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Informationen zum Autor Charles T. Gehring is the director of the New Netherland Project with the New York State Library and the coeditor of numerous collections of original documents from Dutch New Netherland. William A. Starna is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta and a coeditor of Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers (Nebraska 2007). Gehring and Starna coedited A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634-1635: The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert and (with Dean R. Snow) In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives of a Native People. Diederik Willem Goedhuys is a native of the Netherlands and thirty year resident of South Africa. In addition to having knowledge of Dutch, Afrikaans, and English at his disposal, he also spent several months at the New Netherland Project in Albany, New York, where he had access to the best reference sources for the translation of a seventeenth-century publication. Klappentext Charles T. Gehring is the director of the New Netherland Project with the New York State Library and the coeditor of numerous collections of original documents from Dutch New Netherland. William A. Starna is a professor emeritus of anthropology at the State University of New York College at Oneonta and a coeditor of Iroquois Journey: An Anthropologist Remembers (Nebraska 2007). Gehring and Starna coedited A Journey into Mohawk and Oneida Country, 1634¿1635: The Journal of Harmen Meyndertsz van den Bogaert and (with Dean R. Snow) In Mohawk Country: Early Narratives of a Native People. ¿Diederik Willem Goedhuys is a native of the Netherlands and thirty year resident of South Africa. In addition to having knowledge of Dutch, Afrikaans, and English at his disposal, he also spent several months at the New Netherland Project in Albany, New York, where he had access to the best reference sources for the translation of a seventeenth-century publication. Zusammenfassung Provides the first complete and accurate English-language translation of an essential first-hand account of the lives and world of Dutch colonists and northeastern Native communities in the seventeenth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis ForewordPrefacePublication History of Adriaen van der Donck's A Description of New NetherlandMap of New NetherlandA Description of New Netherland:The Country Where New Netherland Is Situated When and by Whom New Netherland Was First Discovered Why This Territory Was Named New Netherland The Dutch, the First Possessors of New Netherland The Limits of New Netherland and How Far They Extend Of the Coast, Foreshore, and Seaports The South River Of the North River Of the Fresh River Of the East River Of the Various Waters and Their Shapes Of the Formation and Soil of the Land Of Wood and Vegetation Of the Fruit Trees Brought Over from the Netherlands Of the Vineyards Of Vegetables Generally Of the Flowers Of the Medicinal Herbs and Indigo Of Agriculture and Field Crops Of the Minerals and the Kinds of Earth and Stone Of the Paints and Dyes Of the Animals in New Netherland Of the Wild Animals Of the Avifauna, Aquatic and Terrestrial, and First the Raptors Of the Terrestrial Birds Of the Aquatic Birds Of the Fish Of the Poisons Of the Wind Of the Air Of the SeasonsOf the Manners and Extraordinary Qualities of the Original Natives of New Netherland Their Bodily Shape, and Why They Are Called Wilden Fare and Food of the Indians Of the Dress and Ornaments of Men and Women Their Houses, Castles, and Settlements Ways of Marriage and Childbirth Of Suckling, and the Relations between Men and Women Ways of Burial, Lamentation, and Mourning Their Festivities and Special Gatherings How Human Beings and Animals First Came to That Cou...
