TY - BOOK ID - 85466738 TI - 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 in Greenland nine months and twelve days AU - White, Adam AU - Martens, Friedrich AU - La Peyrère, Isaac de AU - Pellham, Edward PY - 2011 SN - 0511695802 1108008135 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Natural history KW - Svalbard (Norway) KW - Spitsbergen Island (Norway) KW - Greenland KW - Description and travel KW - History, Natural KW - Natural science KW - Physiophilosophy KW - Biology KW - Science KW - Grønland KW - Groenlandia KW - Grenlandii︠a︡ KW - Groilandia KW - Grænland KW - Groenland KW - Kalaallit Nunaat KW - Gruntland KW - Engronelant KW - Engroneland KW - Gronlandia KW - Grēneland KW - Qrenlandiya KW - Chhen̳-tē KW - Грэнландыя KW - Hrėnlandyi︠a︡ KW - Grenland KW - Greunland KW - Гренландия KW - Гренланди KW - Grenlandi KW - Калааллит Нунаат KW - Grónsko KW - Ynys Las KW - Lasynys KW - Haʼaʼaahjí Hakʼaz Dineʼé Bikéyah KW - Grónlandska KW - Gröönimaa KW - Γροιλανδία KW - Gronlando KW - Grenlando KW - Grienlân KW - Ghraonlainn KW - Greenlynn KW - Çheer y Sniaghtey KW - Grenlandia KW - Гринлэндин Арл KW - Grinlėndin Arl KW - 그린란드 KW - Gŭrinlandŭ KW - Akukittut KW - גרינלנד KW - Grinland KW - Goronulande KW - Grenlande KW - Grenlandija KW - Groenlandi KW - Гренланд KW - Groentlālpan KW - Gruunlaand KW - グリーンランド KW - Gurīnrando KW - Greenlun KW - Griinland KW - Verdi-lande KW - Гренландий KW - Grenlandiĭ KW - Gröönland KW - Gronelândia KW - Groelândia KW - Groenlanda KW - Kalalit Nunat KW - Grunlandya KW - Gräinlound KW - Groenlannia KW - Grynlandyjo KW - Grönlanti KW - Lupanlunti KW - Ґренландія KW - Groenlaand KW - גרינלאנד KW - Grínlándì KW - Grenlandėjė KW - 格陵兰 KW - Gelinglan KW - Kalâtdlit-Nunât KW - Shpit︠s︡bergen (Norway) KW - Spitzbergen Island (Norway) KW - Vestspitsbergen (Norway) KW - West Spitsbergen (Norway) KW - Svalbard KW - Spietsbergenøgruppen (Norway) KW - Svalbard Archipelago (Norway) KW - Spitsbergen (Norway) UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85466738 AB - The publications of the Hakluyt Society 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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. ER -