The Old World Order turns out a real-life Robinson Crusoe. For passionately holding and kissing a young friend, in 1725 sailor Jan Svilt was charged with “engaging in the sins of Sodom and Gomorrah” by the Dutch East India Company, “the most powerful and ruthless multinational the world has ever known. Svilt’s officers felt that his affection for his ward Bandino would bring the wrath of God down on the Dutch fleet as it had on Sodom.” At the same time, the Company offered slave prostitutes to its men at certain Spice Island ports. Svilt’s brave journal, of his life and slow death on the barren Atlantic island of Ascension, is the heart of this book. GR

Publisher: Green Eagle
Paperback: 144 pages
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