A Collection of Documents on Spitzbergen and Greenland
Comprising a Translation from F. Martens' Voyage to Spitzbergen, a Translation from Isaac de La Peyrère's Histoire du Groenland, and God's Power and Providence in the Preservation of Eight Men

Three narratives of challenging voyages of exploration to Spitzbergen and Greenland in the seventeenth century.

Adam White (Edited by), F. Martens (Author), Isaac de la Peyrère (Author)

9781108008136, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 8 April 2010

328 pages, 2 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 1.9 cm, 0.42 kg

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 1671, first translated into English and published in 1694 in a book of voyages dedicated to Samuel Pepys, then Secretary to the Admiralty; the Relation du Groeneland of Isaac de la Peyrère (published anonymously in French in 1663 and specially translated for this book); and the extraordinary account of the survival of eight Englishmen 'left by mischance in Green-land' for nine months in 1630.

Introduction
Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland part 1
Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland part 2
Appendix
Description of Greenland
God's power and providence
Index.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]