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Pars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores ofPars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores ofPars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of
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Physical Book
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Author
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
23.4x17x2.5 cm
Weight
0.69 kg.
ISBN
1891640232
ISBN13
9781891640230
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Pars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of

Lange, William De (Author) · Floating World Editions · Hardcover

Pars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of - Lange, William De

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Synopsis "Pars Japonica: The First Dutch Expedition to Reach the Shores of"

This is the harrowing account of arguably the most ill-fated expedition in the long maritime history of the Low Countries. At the end of the 16th century five heavily armed ships sailed from the port of Rotterdam under the command of men who had never set foot on a seagoing ship. Their plan was to sail through the treacherous Strait of Magellan and raid the western coast of Latin America as had the Englishmen Drake and Cavendish. Storms, disease, and general inexperience were to upset those ambitious plans in unexpected ways. The terrible hardships suffered in the course of the subsequent two years became an almost biblical trial of the officers and crew-a trial the outcome of which seemed to scorn the ships' talismanic names: Faith, Hope, Love, Fidelity, and The Gospel. Instead, treachery, betrayal, mutiny, and mayhem were the grim rewards of this fateful journey. Out of the five hundred men who sailed, only a hundred survived and only a handful of those were ever to return home. One ship did pass the test, but not in the way its owners had foreseen. It was through the offices of an English pilot that the ship called Love reached the as yet largely unknown islands of Japan and that the outcome of an otherwise so disastrous expedition was miraculously reversed. The pilot's name was William Adams, the near mythical yet real-life figure who became the hero of James Clavell's best-selling novel Shogun.

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