Format:
XVI, 288 S.
ISBN:
978-1-108-00813-6
Series Statement:
Cambridge library collection / Travel and exploration
Content:
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 volume (published in 1855) contains three narratives: Frederick Martens' description of a voyage to Spitzbergen in..
Note:
Digitally print vers. from the ed. first publ. 1855
Language:
English
Subjects:
Scandinavian Studies
Keywords:
Entdeckungsreise
;
Entdeckungsreise
