A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East Towards Cathay and China Undertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595 and 1596

Undertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595 and 1596

By:

Gerrit De Veer

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Paperback

Series:

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This book contains three accounts of Dutch voyages in search of a north-eastern passage to China, undertaken in the 1590s. (When this Hakluyt edition was published in 1853, continuing anxiety about the fate of Sir John Franklin's expedition made any accounts of Arctic exploration extremely topical.) The Dutch were not successful in establishing a north-east passage; but the stories of the expeditions and of the courage and endurance of the men who took part in them make for fascinating reading.

Release date NZ

April 8th, 2010

Author

Gerrit De Veer

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Contributors

Edited by Charles T. Beke
Translated by William Phillip

Country of Publication

United Kingdom

Illustrations

12 b/w illus. 4 maps

Imprint

Cambridge University Press

Pages

512

Publisher

Cambridge Library Collection

Series

Cambridge Library Collection- Hakluyt First Series

Dimensions

140x216x29

ISBN-13

9781108008464

Product ID

6300506

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