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Life Under the Palms: The Sublime World of the Anti-colonialist Jacob Haafner by Paul van der Velde Art Covers all 468 species ofJacob Gotfried Haafner (17541809) was one of the most popular European travel writers of the early nineteenth century, writing in the Romantic mode. A Dutch citizen, Haafner spent more than twenty years of his early life living outside of Europe, in India, Ceylon, Mauritius, Java, and South Africa. Books like his popular Travels in a Palanquin were translated into the major European languages, and his essays against the work of Christian missionaries