Verlag: Hordern House Sydney 1999 (first published in Amst, 1999
ISBN 10: 1875567259 ISBN 13: 9781875567256
Sprache: Englisch
Anbieter: THE CROSS Art + Books, Sydney, NSW, Australien
31.0 x 19.0cms c 192pp b/w & colour illusts very good hardback with decorated boards (no dustwrapper as issued) When Isaac Le Maire tried to break the East Indies spice trade monopoly in 1615-16 he founded The Australian Company in order to locate Terra Australis and find an alternative trade route to the East Indies. Jacob Le Maire and Willem Schouten opened up the sea route to the Pacific via Cape Horn. This book has an essay on the origins of ''Australian navigation; Jacob le Maire''s ''Spieghel der Australische Navigatie door''; an English translation of this text; and an English edition of yhe le Muir & Schouten''s voyage.