M. T. H. (Michael Theophile Hubert) Perelaer

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M. T. H. (Michael Theophile Hubert) Perelaer

1831–1901

A Dutch army officer turned novelist, he drew on his years in the Dutch East Indies to write vivid fiction and travel writing about colonial life. His work is especially remembered for bringing the world of nineteenth-century Indonesia to Dutch readers.

6 Audiobooks

Baboe Dalima

Baboe Dalima

by M. T. H. (Michael Theophile Hubert) Perelaer

Naar den equator, met een voorspel: van pastoor soldaat

Naar den equator, met een voorspel: van pastoor soldaat

by M. T. H. (Michael Theophile Hubert) Perelaer

Ran away from the Dutch : Or, Borneo from South to North

Ran away from the Dutch : Or, Borneo from South to North

by M. T. H. (Michael Theophile Hubert) Perelaer

Borneo van Zuid naar Noord : Ethnografische Roman

Borneo van Zuid naar Noord : Ethnografische Roman

by M. T. H. (Michael Theophile Hubert) Perelaer

In het land der zon : Een kwart eeuw tusschen de keerkringen

In het land der zon : Een kwart eeuw tusschen de keerkringen

by M. T. H. (Michael Theophile Hubert) Perelaer

Baboe Dalima; or, The Opium Fiend

Baboe Dalima; or, The Opium Fiend

by M. T. H. (Michael Theophile Hubert) Perelaer

About the author

Born in 1831, Michael Theophile Hubert Perelaer was a Dutch writer and military officer. He served in the Dutch East Indies, and that experience shaped much of his later work as an author.

Perelaer wrote novels, sketches, and travel pieces that often focused on life in the Indies. His best-known work today is Baboe Dalima (1886), which has been noted as an early Dutch "opium novel."

He died in 1901. While he is not widely known to modern general readers, his books remain of interest for the way they reflect nineteenth-century Dutch views of Indonesia and colonial society.