IL DIVO Time to Say Goodbye Live

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Cheers, • Parts 1, 3 and 4 are also in the playlist! • For information on VOC specifically (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie/Dutch East India Company) see my video on its history and formation here: • A THEFT led to the creation of the WE... • If you are a fan of the Aubrey-Maturin books like Master and Commander or Horatio Hornblower then you will likely enjoy these as they put you into the seat of the protagonist. You aren't the Captain in this, instead you are an average dutch citizen from the farming class seeking riches and adventure aboard a VOC ship to the east. • The video is presented in 2nd person which if you are a fan of Role Playing games you will enjoy. If you aren't but enjoy Historical Fiction then you will enjoy this like a great History documentary in which YOU play the starring role. This voyage now takes 15 hours by air from Amsterdam to Jakarta. But back then it was an 8 month voyage by VOC ship with up to 25 percent of the crew succumbing to illness before arrival. • History sometimes blurs reality with romantic notions of how it was in the past. While this is sometimes true, often the reality is harsher and much less romantic than imagined. • In this episode you are Piet Van Westen from the small dutch village of Gouderak. The year is 1655 and the Netherlands is in the midst of a Golden Age. • Your dreary life and future as a farmer holds zero appeal against the backdrop of the adventure to be had wth the VOC fleet that sailed for the Dutch East Indies. • You head off for Amsterdam and the uncertainty of life on board a 17th century VOC company ship. What adventures will you experience? What was the food like or the living conditions on board such a ship!? Could you have survived the conditions on board and made it to journey's end? • I received a LOT of inspiration from the following channels: Baz Battles, Historia Civilis and Kings and Generals! • SUPPORT THE CHANNEL: • SUBSCRIBE TO JOIN YORE HISTORY! / @yorehistory • ✔ Patreon ► / yore_history • And of course via LIKES and Subscriptions! • Other videos in this series: • Part 1 can be found here: • Yore Life as a Dutch Sailor on an Eas... • Part 3 can be found here: • Yore Life as a Dutch Sailor on an Eas... • Part 4 can be found here: • Yore Life as a Dutch Sailor on an Eas... • Sources: • The East Indiamen - The Seafarers - Time Life Books • The Embarrassment of Riches - Simon Schama • The Dutch Republic - Its Rise, Greatness, and Fall - Jonathan Israel • Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age - Michael North • #EastIndiaMan #DutchGoldenAge #AgeofSail

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