author
A. Koorevaar
A Dutch travel writer whose surviving public record is slim, but whose work offers a vivid early-20th-century journey through Java. In this book, the focus falls on landscape, local custom, and the atmosphere of the Tengger highlands.
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In en om Java's Paradijs De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907
by A. Koorevaar
About the author
Very little confirmed biographical information about this author is readily available in major public sources. The name appears in library and public-domain records simply as A. Koorevaar, attached to the Dutch travel work In en om Java's Paradijs.
That book was published as De Aarde en haar Volken, 1907 and is preserved by Project Gutenberg, which identifies it as a Dutch-language travel text about Java and Copenhagen. The surviving descriptions present the work as an early-20th-century account of Java, especially the Tengger region and places such as Tosari and the Bromo area.
Because so little verified personal information is easy to confirm, the strongest picture of A. Koorevaar comes through the writing itself: observant, descriptive, and deeply interested in place. Readers drawn to historical travel writing may enjoy the book for its sense of landscape, culture, and a European view of Java from its era.