Season 1
En coursWe use pepper and salt every day. Nobody realizes that it was precisely those simple ingredients that initially attracted the Dutch over the oceans. To the West for the salt. To the East for the pepper. It seems like a simple story, but of course there was much more to it and there was a lot more to it before those proud East Indiamen controlled the oceans and the Low Countries became the Golden Republic.
Het Hollands mirakel
How was it possible that the small Netherlands from around 1600 grew to the biggest trade and navel power in the world and to the Golden Republic in a few years time? What fuelled that handful of men on vulnerable ships to overcome all conceivable hardships and cross unknown oceans looking for faraway exotic coasts? Curiosity? Thirst for adventure? Or was trade the only motivation, the profit, the prosperity, the fortune?
Smokkelaars en vrijbuiters
Een peperduur avontuur
De geur van kaneel
Het begon met de liefde
Barbaren in de Chinese Zee
Eenzaam tussen miljoenen
Van Waalstraat tot Wall Street
Verzuimd Brasil
Bloed, zweet en tranen
De herberg aan de Kaap
Van koopman tot kolonist
De ontdekking van het Zuidland
De laatste getuigen