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, by Gerrit de Veer. Published at Amsterdam in the Year 1598, and in 1609 translated into English

✍ Scribed by Gerrit de Veer, Charles T. Beke (editor), William Phillip (translator)

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Year: 2010
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 468
• Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series; 13
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Frontmatter......Page 6
INTRODUCTION......Page 13
CORRIGENDA ET ADDENDA......Page 153
Map......Page 155
Title page......Page 157
Dedication......Page 159
THE FYRST PART OF THE NAUIGATION INTO THE NORTH SEAS......Page 161
APPENDIX......Page 419
I - A LETTER FROM JOHN BALAK TO GERARD MERCATOR......Page 421
II - AN ACCOUNT OF HENRY HUDSON'S VISIT TO NOVAYA ZEMLYA......Page 425
III - WRITINGS OF WILLIAM BARENTS, PRESERVED BY PURCHAS......Page 433
INDEX......Page 441