TY - BOOK AU - Boterbloem, Kees TI - The Fiction and Reality of Jan Struys SN - 9780230553187 U1 - 910.92 PY - 2008/// PB - Palgrave MacMillan KW - Biography & Autobiography N1 - Dutch Sailmaker and sailor Jan Struys' (c.1629-c.1694) account of his various overseas travels became a bestseller after its first publication in Amsterdam in 1676, and was later translated into English, French, German and Russian. This new book depicts the story of its author's life as well as the first singular analysis of the Struys text ER -