Account Of A Voyage Of Discovery To The West Coast Of Corea And The Great Loo Choo Island
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William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795-1798
Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with supplementary letters and the journal of Broughton's journey across Mexico (1793). An extensive introduction by Professor Barry Gough places the voyage in its historical context. Broughton had first visited the North Pacific in 1792 in command of the brig Chatham during Vancouver's voyage. When negotiations between Vancouver and Juan Francisco Bodega y Quadra reached an impasse, Broughton was sent back to London to seek fresh instructions, travelling across Mexico and returning to Europe in Spanish ships. Back in London in July 1793 he was appointed in command of the sloop Providence with orders to rejoin Vancouver in the Pacific, taking with him the astronomer John Crosley.
Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea
A Narrative by Captain Basil Hall of his voyage with Captain Murray Maxwell to the West Coast of Corea (Korea) and the Great Loo-Choo Island in 1816. This appealing work attracted great popular interest when it was published for it's portrayal of the people of the Island - 'We saw nothing like poverty or distress of any kind: every person that we met seemed contented and happy'. The detailed colour drawings of the islanders and Hall's powers of description combine to create a wonderful picture of a land that must have seemed exotically different to the visiting Europeans from their own homeland.
William Robert Broughton's Voyage of Discovery to the North Pacific 1795–1798
Author: Mr Andrew David
language: en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date: 2013-07-28
Edited and richly annotated by Lt Cdr Andrew David, this volume offers for the first time a complete transcript of the handwritten journal kept by William Broughton on his voyage to the North Pacific (1795-1798), together with letters and the journal of his journey across Mexico (1793). Aiming to complete the work left unfinished by Cook's third voyage, Broughton surveyed the coasts of Japan, the Kurile Islands, Sakhalin and Korea, despite being wrecked on an uncharted reef off the Ryukyu Islands in the middle of the mission.