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Victor Enthoven is Associate Professor at the Netherlands Defence Academy and senior researcher at the Free University of Amsterdam. His research interest include maritime, naval and military history and European expansion history, both west and east. His major publications include, co-edited with Johannes Postma, Riches from Atlantic Commerce: Dutch Transatlantic Trade and Shipping, 1585-1817 (Brill, 2003).Steve Murdoch is Professor in History at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include migration from the British Isles in the seventeenth century and the history of maritime warfare. His major publications include Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Brill, 2006) and The Terror of the Seas: Scottish Maritime Warfare, 1513-1713 (Brill, 2010).Eila Williamson, Ph.D. (1998) in Scottish History, University of Glasgow, is currently a freelance researcher. She is Editor of The Innes Review, the journal of the Scottish Catholic Historical Association and co-editor of Saints' Cults in the Celtic World (Boydell, 2009).

"Once again the publishing house of Brill has produced a splendid book [...]."- Jaap R. Bruijn (Leiden University, The Netherlands), International Journal of Maritime History, 2011, Vol. XXIII, No. 2, pp. 378 - 379"...source publications like these are necessary to show that the endeavours of East India Companies should never be considered simply as national projects, but seen more as European undertakings. Certainly the books offers us an opportunity to marvel at how different sailing the world must have been almost four centuries ago and offers us an intriguing insight into the world of the East India Companies."- Chris Nierstrasz (University of Warwick), The Innes Review, 2014, Vol. 65, No. 2, pp. 180-182 DOI: 10.3366/inr.2014.0081

• General Editor’s PrefaceList of IllustrationsPrefaceList of AbbreviationsNotes on Measures, Currencies, and MileageMapsPART ONE: HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION1. A Many-headed Hydra: An Introduction to the Dutch East India Company2. Introduction to the Log-book of Captain John Anderson 3. The Log as a Reflection of the Practice of Navigation4. War in the Log of John Anderson5. Scots and the East Indies: A Background to the Voyage of John AndersonPART TWO: THE LOG-BOOK OF CAPTAIN JOHN ANDERSONEditorial PracticeThe Log-book of Captain John AndersonAppendicesAppendice A. Foreigners in the VOC, 1602-1660Appendice B. Scots in East India Service, 1600-1660Appendice C. Two letters of Drummer-Major James Spens, VOC Soldier, 1631-1632BibliographyIndex