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Australian Maritime Series: No. 5 Le Maire | ||
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Ian McKay: Mercator's World, Vol. 5 Number 3, May/June 2000 | |
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Isaac le Maire may well have been the largest shareholder in the Dutch East India Company (VOC), but he was not at all averse to independent ventures - one of which forced him to resign his trusteeship - and it was an attempt to circumvent the company's monopoly on East Indies trade, as well as the thought of finding the fabled southland, "Terra Australis", that led him to form an "Australian Company". | ||
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Michael Reid: The Weekend Australian, 18th-19th December, 1999 | |
| Should a buyer wish to form a collection rather than a mere assemblage of objects, it is imperative that the collector gains a thorough understanding of their area of interest. Collecting art is after all is said and done primarily a task of obtaining and applying knowledge. Over the festive season collectors are advised to augment their hands on art handling experience by reading any number of user-friendly art reference or art market books. Consider the following subjects and authors.... | ||
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Noel Murphy: The Geelong Advertiser, 27th May, 2000 | |
| You have to feel for someone like young Jacob Le Maire, the 17th century Dutch navigator who struck a Pacific trade route from Europe to Asia, via South America’s treacherous Cape Horn, in 1616. No sooner did he achieve this historic fact and land in Batavia, present-day Jakarta, than he was deported back home because Dutch authorities refused to believe him capable of such a feat. Fatally compounding matters, he died en route. | ||
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Book Club of California: Quarterly News-Letter Vol. LXV Number 4, Fall 2000 | |
| Such quirkiness needs a master editor. Dr. Edward Duyker, a New South Wales History Fellow and author of The Dutch in Australia, a 1987 study of early Dutch voyages in the surrounding seas, is such an expert. | ||
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International Journal of Maritime History Volume XII Number 2, December 2000 | |
| This in brief explains much about the background of the founding of the "Australian Company" in 1614 by Le Maire and some of the wealthy citizens of the city of Hoorn. Trade with the mythic "Terra Australis" may well have been simply an excuse for opening up a new route to the Pacific via the most southern route around America. Besides, the reports about the initial encounters of the sailors of Duyfken with Australian aborigines in 1606 had not been at all positive. Nevertheless, the possibility of eventual success could not be ruled out entirely. | ||
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