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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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.

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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. The original Hakluyt edition was published in 1853, but a new edition was prepared in 1876, in light of recent expeditions to the region, of which accounts are given. 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.

This Is A New Release Of The Original 1871 Edition.

1871. Evidence that the golden image at Mount Sinai was a cone and not a calf, with three appendices. A collection of five letters which appeared in the Jewish Chronicle in May and June of 1871, three of which were written by the author, one from the erudite Jewish scholar Dr. Benisch, and one by an anonymous correspondent. The appendices are entitled: on the non-identity of Mitzraim and Egypt; on the possibility of turning the waters of the Nile away from Egypt; on the sources of the Nile.

Evidence that the golden image at Mount Sinai was a cone and not a calf, with three appendices. A collection of five letters which appeared in the Jewish Chronicle in May and June of 1871, three of which were written by the author, one from the erudite Jewish scholar Dr. Benisch, and one by an anonymous correspondent. The appendices are entitled: on the non-identity of Mitzraim and Egypt; on the possibility of turning the waters of the Nile away from Egypt; on the sources of the Nile.