Admiral Matelieff's Singapore and Johor, 1606-1616

by Peter Borschberg

A$20 · Offered by Asia Bookroom

Singapore. NUS Press. 2016. Stock ID #217322 242pp, glossary, list of place names, bibliography, index. Paperback. Few authors have as much to say about Singapore and Johor in the early 17th century as Cornelis Matelieff de Jonge c.1570‒1632 . This admiral of the Dutch East India Company sailed to Asia in 1605 and besieged Portuguese Melaka in 1606 with the help of Malay allies. A massive Portuguese armada

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