Mr. John Nieuhoff's remarkable voyages & travells into ye best provinces of ye West and East Indies
Digitised Book 216.73.216.191 (0)
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This publication contains a collection of voyages and travels. The first account is that of John Nieuhoff. Written originally in Dutch, it tells the account of Nieuhoff's stay in Brazil. Nieuhoff's account gives a description of the country, its people and their customs. The second account is that of Nieuhoff's travels to the East Indies, which covers Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand, and India. In this account, he describes the history and natural history of these places, as well as the social life and customs of their inhabitants. The third account is also of John Nieuhoff's travels to the East Indies. The fourth is the travels of Captain John Smith to several continents. This is followed by the accounts of several sailors to Greenland and Spitzbergen.
Additional Details
- Title
- Mr. John Nieuhoff's remarkable voyages & travells into ye best provinces of ye West and East Indies
- Creators
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- Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672
- Smith, John, 1580-1631
- Subject
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- Voyages and travels--Early works to 1800
- Brazil--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
- Indonesia--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
- Greenland--Description and travel--Early works to 1800
- Publisher
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- National Library Board Singapore,
- Contributors
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- John Bastin
- Digital Description
- application/pdf, ill., plates, maps
- Table of Contents
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- the first kept by seven sailors in the Isle of St. Maurice in Greenland, in the years 1633, 1634. Who pass'd the winter, and all died in the said island. The second kept by seven other sailors who in the years 1633 and 1634 winter'd at Spitzbergen ; with an account of their adventures and sufferings, from the bears and whales, insupportable cold and storms, &c. -- Two journals : the first kept by seven sailers in Greenland : the second kept by seven other sailers at Spitzberger, in the years 1633 and 1634 -- A short journal of seven other seamen, who being left in 1634 at Spitzbergen to pass the winter, died there in 1635 -- A true and short account of forty two persons who perished by shipwrack, near Spitzbergen in the year 1646.
- Copyright
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- Digitised images, All rights reserved, National Library Board Singapore, 2020