Anne S. Troelstra held a chair in pure mathematics and foundations
of mathematics at the University of Amsterdam from 1970 to 2000,
and has published more than 80 mathematical papers and mathematical
monographs. He is a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences
and a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences. In
1996 he received the F.L. Bauer Prize of the Technical University
of Munich for his contributions to theoretical computer
science.
Following his retirement he turned into a distinguished, albeit
non-professional, scholar of the history and social significance of
Natural History, devoting much of his time to the study of natural
history travel narratives. He already published two books on the
subject (in Dutch): Tijgers op de Ararat (Tigers on Mount Ararat)
in 2003, Kolibries in de oren (Hummingbirds in the ears) in 2009,
as well as an anthology of Dutch natural history travel narratives,
Van Spitsbergen naar Suriname, in 2007.
"RECOMMENDATION: For those with a serious interest in natural
history travel literature." - The Birdbooker Report, September 9,
2017.
"Troelstra’s Bibliography of natural history travel narratives is
an impressive source of information on virtually all natural
history travel narratives with their editions and translations ever
written and published. It is truly encyclopedic in listing
bibliographic details mostly of book-length monographs as
completely as possible, but Troelstra goes far deeper by providing
short biographies and travel summaries for each work mentioned.
Historical travel reports are often widely scattered and have often
been published in only small editions, which hampers historical
research on the geographic exploration of the world. A complete
compendium of all natural history travel narratives was painfully
missing, and it is due to Troelstra to close this gap. Troelstra
has provided something really special: He has produced a complete
and thorough bibliography, but also a book, whose short biographies
and travel summaries are delightful reading." – Michael Ohl,
Researcher and curator, Berlin Natural History Museum, Germany
"The breadth and depth of Anne Troelstra’s knowledge of natural
history expeditions – from travel accounts to ethnography, flora
and fauna – is finally made available in this valuable reference
work." – Trienke van der Spek, Chief curator Scientific Collections
and Library, Teylers Museum, Haarlem, The Netherlands
"As far as I am aware this is the only bibliography of its kind.
And it's a stupendous piece of work." – Redmond O'Hanlon
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