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by Cornelis Janszoon Coen, Philipp Franz von Siebold, Maarten Gerritszoon Vries
Full title
Reize van Maarten Gerritsz. Vries in 1643 naar het Noorden en Oosten van Japan volgens het journaal gehouden door C.J. Coen, op het schip Castricum
Language
nl
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Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Harry Lamé, André Engels and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.)
Release date
2012-03-14
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
A 17th-century Dutch sailor and chronicler, he is best known for the journal he kept during a voyage to the seas north and east of Japan. His writing offers a rare firsthand window into early European exploration of East Asia.
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1796–1866
A German physician and naturalist, he became one of the most important early European interpreters of Japan. His life combined medicine, botany, and diplomacy with a dramatic personal story that stretched from Nagasaki to Europe.
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A Dutch explorer and cartographer of the 1600s, he is remembered for a voyage that brought some of the first Western European written accounts of Hokkaido, Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, and the Sea of Okhotsk. His travels helped expand European knowledge of the far northeast of Asia.
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