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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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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