The Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators by Hendrik Willem Van Loon
Author:Hendrik Willem Van Loon [Loon, Hendrik Willem Van]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2016-07-31T00:00:00+00:00
CHAPTER VI
VAN NOORT CIRCUMNAVIGATES THE WORLD
Oliver van Noort was the first Hollander to sail around the world. Incidentally, he was the fourth navigator to succeed in this dangerous enterprise since in the year 1520 the little ships of Magellan had accomplished the feat of circumnavigating the globe. Of the hero of this memorable Dutch voyage we know almost nothing. He was a modest man, and except for a few lines of personal introduction which appear in the printed story of his voyage, which was published in Rotterdam, his home town, in the year 1620, in which he tells us that he had made many trips to different parts of the world, his life to us is a complete mystery.
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