Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art (Winner of the Gratiaen Prize

(Winner of  the Gratiaen Prize - 2020)

Ha-Joon Chang's 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism turns received economic wisdom on its head to show you how the world really works

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It is therefore fitting that Dominic Sansoni has joined Anjalendran as the photographer for the present volume

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Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art (Winner of the Gratiaen PrizeJacob Gotfried Haafner (17541809) was one of the most popular European travel writers of the early nineteenth century, writing in the Romantic mode. A Dutch citizen, Haafner spent more than twenty years of his early life living outside of Europe, in India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Java, and South Africa. Books like his popular Travels in a Palanquin were translated into the major European languages, and his essays against the work of Christian missionaries