TY - BOOK ID - 73232096 TI - The travels of Pieter Albert Bik : writings from the Dutch colonial world of the early nineteenth century AU - Toivanen, Mikko AU - Leiden University Press PY - 2017 SN - 9789087282790 940060291X 9789400602915 9087282796 PB - Leiden Leiden University Press DB - UniCat KW - Colonial administrators KW - Travelers' writings, Dutch KW - Colonial administrators. KW - Travel. KW - Travelers' writings, Dutch. KW - Biography. KW - History and criticism. KW - Bik, Pieter Albert, KW - Bik, Pieter Albert. KW - 1800-1899 KW - Netherlands KW - History KW - J4813.25 KW - J4810.60 KW - J4542.25 KW - J2297.25 KW - Civil service, Colonial KW - Government executives KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Europe -- Netherlands KW - Japan: International politics and law -- international relations, policy and security -- Kinsei, Edo, Tokugawa period, early modern (1600-1867) KW - Japan: Economy and industry -- commerce and trade -- international trade, economic relations and policy -- Europe -- Netherlands KW - Europe: Genealogy and biography of the Netherlands KW - E-books KW - Netherlands. KW - Colonial History, Dutch-East Indies, Tourism, Travel Writing. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:73232096 AB - The unpublished writings of a Dutch colonial official, Pieter Albert Bik (1798-1855) are studied and contextualized in this book. The remarkable autobiographical manuscript of Bik, which is here presented in English translation with annotations, provides a unique glimpse of the wide horizons of the world of Dutch colonialism, tracing his many journeys in Europe, the Dutch East Indies and Japan as well as across the oceans in the first half of the nineteenth century. In this work, Mikko Toivanen draws a parallel between Bik's colonial travels and the contemporary emergence of a new kind of travel within Europe, showing that the culture of colonial travel was intimately connected with notions of leisure and tourism being developed back home at the time. ER -