Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1562-1611) was a Dutchman who, in 1596, penned the famous "Itinerario, " an account of his travel to the Indian Peninsula and its eastern surroundings that described the inhabitants of this vast region and quickly became a travel guide for everyone going there. Van Linschoten is held as a key eyewitness of the Portuguese-Asian empire at its height, and as one who worked to shift the center of European expansion from the Iberian peninsula and Italy to the Netherlands and England. In 1604 he published an abridged version, the "Icones et Habitus Indorum, " which...
Jan Huygen van Linschoten (1562-1611) was a Dutchman who, in 1596, penned the famous "Itinerario, " an account of his travel to the Indian Peninsula a...