author
D. P. Plaatsman
A little-known Dutch writer remembered today for a single surviving title, this author wrote an adventure-tinged children’s story about hardship, emigration, and hope. The book follows a shell fisherman’s family from Texel toward America, giving the tale a plainspoken, humane pull.
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De kleine Zwerveling
by D. P. Plaatsman
About the author
Very little biographical information about D. P. Plaatsman could be confirmed from reliable online sources. Project Gutenberg currently lists Plaatsman with one surviving work in its catalog: De kleine Zwerveling.
That novel was published in Dutch in 1894 by Æ.E. Kluwer in Deventer, according to Dutch library catalog records. It is a children’s story set around Eierland on Texel, following a shell fisherman, his wife, and their son as they consider emigrating to America; the story later turns dramatic with a shipwreck near the American coast.
Because so little documented information about the author appears to be available online, Plaatsman is best introduced through the work itself: a compact late-19th-century Dutch tale shaped by family struggle, migration, and resilience.