Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century
Hakluyt Society, Second Series

Early Dutch and English Voyages to Spitsbergen in the Seventeenth Century

Including Hessel Gerritsz. 'Histoire du pays nommé Spitsberghe,' 1613 and Jacob Segersz. van der Brugge 'Journael of dagh register,' Amsterdam, 1634

Basil H. Soulsby and Others
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Publisher Description

'Early Dutch and English Voyages' translated into English, for the first time, by Basil H. Soulsby, F.S.A., of the British Museum; Segersz's text translated into English, for the first time, by J. A. J. de Villiers, of the British Museum. Edited, with Introduction and Notes, by Sir W. Martin Conway, F.S.A. With affidavits by English merchants and seamen relating to happenings at Spitzbergen in 1618, and two documents telling of events there in 1634-5, taken from Public Record Office, State Papers Domestic. Including a bibliography of Spitzbergen, pp. ix-xiv. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1904.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2017
15 May
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
264
Pages
PUBLISHER
Taylor and Francis
SIZE
3.9
MB

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