Stop into Het Fort van Sjakoo for your alternative bookshop fix

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Het Fort van Sjakoo

Amsterdam


For anarchist, communist and feminist tomes and zines on everything from pirates to punk, try this long-running not-for-profit bookshop (since 1977 and originally a squatted building) named after the legendary hideout of Jacob Frederik Muller ('Sjakoo'). The Amsterdam-based thief, born in 1690, stole from the rich and gave to…well, as the bookshop describes, mainly himself.


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