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" A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and China : "
Gerrit de Veer, Translated by William Phillip, Edited by Charles T. Beke.
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BL
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675167
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b504356
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Veer, Gerrit de
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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 /\ Gerrit de Veer, Translated by William Phillip, Edited by Charles T. Beke.
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Cambridge :: Cambridge University Press.
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Place of publication not identified :: publisher not identified,, 1853.
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Cambridge library collection. Hakluyt First Series.
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1 online resource (512 pages) :: digital, PDF file(s)
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9780511696022 (ebook)
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
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| Abstract
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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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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.
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Barentsz, Willem,approximately 1550-1597.
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Arctic regions, Discovery and exploration, Dutch.
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Beke, Charles T.
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Phillip, William
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A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay & China.
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