A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East towards... - 9781108008464

A True Description of Three Voyages by the North-East towards Cathay and ChinaUndertaken by the Dutch in the Years 1594, 1595 and 1596\nAuthor(s): Gerrit de Veer, William Phillip, Charles T. Beke\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108008464, 978-1108008464\nSynopsis\nThe 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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.