This book is about the development of seventeenth-century northern European overseas business through the perspective of individuals. At the core of the book, is the way individuals acted in the overseas business, especially in connection to the Nordic trading companies. "A fundamental study on connections and contexts of two early modern trans-local, trans-regional and trans-continental business entrepreneurs in Europe, the Atlantic world and the Indian Ocean" - Holger Weiss, Åbo Akademi University, Finland