Description
Book SynopsisThis 1694 account of voyages made by Sir John Narborough, Abel Tasman, John Wood and Friderich Martens includes Tasman's discovery of New Zealand and Tasmania in 1642. A key reference for later navigators, it was notably one of the oldest books in Darwin's library aboard the Beagle.
Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part I. A Journal Kept by Captain John Narbrough [during his] Voyage to the Streights of Magellan: A relation of a voyage made towards the South Terra Incognita, extracted from the journal of Captain Abel Jansen Tasman; A relation of a voyage for the discovery of a passage by the North-East, to Japan and China, anno domini 1676, by Captain John Wood; Journal on board the 'Prosperous', captain William Flawes commander, from Nova Zembla to England, 1676; My conceptions of the said voyage, with some observations; A brief description of the land; Part II. The Voyage into Spitzbergen and Greenland, 1671: 1. The passages of the whole voyage, together with some account of the weather; 2. The description of Spitzbergen; 3. The plants of Spitzbergen; 4. The animals of Spitzbergen; A supplement to Capt. Wood's and Marten's North-East voyages.
