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The Island At the Center of the World by Russell Shorto This wonderfully written, enjoyably readable book tells the early history of the Dutch trading colony of New Netherland through the life of its first lawyer, Adrien vander Donk. From Rensselaerswijk, where he lived through the same period of years as our own Pieter Claessen, to New Amsterdam and back to the Netherlands in his quest to free the colony from the mismanagement of the Dutch West India Company, it is a detailed and enlightening look into the world of our 17th century ancestors. Paperback $14.95 |
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