Prisoners of the Ice, 1594-1597, the three expeditions of Willem Barentsz, the forced wintering in Novaya Zemlya and the discovery of Spitsbergen.
Chandeigne| N° d'inventaire | 25696 |
| Format | 12 x 17.5 |
| Détails | 256 p., black and white illustrations, paperback. |
| Publication | Paris, 2018 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782367321578 |
"Magellane" collection.
The accounts of Gerit de Veer translated and presented by Xavier de Castro.
Willem Barentsz is the most famous Dutch navigator in his own country, but his figure remains little known in France. Yet, he was one of the first to attempt the northeast passage to China during three memorable voyages from 1594 to 1596. During the third, he rediscovered the Spitsbergen archipelago, the Svalbard of the Vikings, knowledge of which had since been lost. Continuing further east, his ship was caught in the ice north of Novaya Zemlya. The seventeen sailors, completely unaware of the reality of the polar night, had to spend long winters in a cabin they built, living on foxes and battling hungry bears, scurvy, and the extreme cold every day. As summer came, realizing that their ship was lost forever, the men resigned themselves to returning to Norway by rowboat. During this 2,800 km journey across a partially frozen sea, Barentsz died, but twelve survivors returned to Amsterdam where the story of their exploits was printed and enjoyed immense success in Europe before falling back into oblivion, until a ship found the "survival hut" in 1871 and brought back hundreds of everyday objects, sometimes very moving, that the men had left behind.
"Magellane" collection.
The accounts of Gerit de Veer translated and presented by Xavier de Castro.
Willem Barentsz is the most famous Dutch navigator in his own country, but his figure remains little known in France. Yet, he was one of the first to attempt the northeast passage to China during three memorable voyages from 1594 to 1596. During the third, he rediscovered the Spitsbergen archipelago, the Svalbard of the Vikings, knowledge of which had since been lost. Continuing further east, his ship was caught in the ice north of Novaya Zemlya. The seventeen sailors, completely unaware of the reality of the polar night, had to spend long winters in a cabin they built, living on foxes and battling hungry bears, scurvy, and the extreme cold every day. As summer came, realizing that their ship was lost forever, the men resigned themselves to returning to Norway by rowboat. During this 2,800 km journey across a partially frozen sea, Barentsz died, but twelve survivors returned to Amsterdam where the story of their exploits was printed and enjoyed immense success in Europe before falling back into oblivion, until a ship found the "survival hut" in 1871 and brought back hundreds of everyday objects, sometimes very moving, that the men had left behind.