J.A. van der Vlis - tLant van Texsel
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J.A. van der Vlis - tLant van Texsel - Den Burg - BV / vh Langeveld en De Rooy - 1977 - 2nd edition - 528 pp - Half leather binding - 23 x 31 cm. - Design: Jan & Elly Roest Hoogwoud.
Condition: Good - top edge has some faint rust spots, otherwise EXCELLENT.
Standard work on the history of the Wadden Island of Texel. Illustrated with photos, maps and (folding) reproductions in colour and black and white. With table of contents and indexes. Hardback edition with (imitation?) leather spine and linen boards.
The book deals, among other things, with the ice age, the Romans, the monastery of Ludingakerke, the legend of Ada van Holland, dikes, polders, the oldest dike book (1455-1456), the disaster year 1559, the origins of Den Burg, shipping, fishing, Jacob van Neck, the war with England (1665-1667), pirates, pilots, Texel sailors in the 17th and 18th century, Jannetie Koning-Keijser, Huize Brakestein, Pieter Smit and the mutiny on the Nijenburg, the mussels company, shipping disasters, lighthouses, executions and death sentences:
¶ On p. 79 the tragic story of Gerrit Nanse who, in the night of November 6 to 7, had 'mingled' with a sheep animal 'in order to perpetrate his dirty lust'. Of his own free will, 'without pain of iron', the man confessed to his crime and on March 5, 1711 he was 'burned alive' together with the sheep.
