Dutch Navigator's Bible: Illustrated Collector's Edition

Author: (USA) A. de Jongh
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Publish Date: 2002-07-01
Features: This book tells a tragic story of failure. Those who packed the supplies for these expeditions quietly died in the poorhouse. The sailors who participated in these voyages, though sacrificing their lives, rejoiced as if lighting a new pipe or opening a bottle of wine. Some drowned, some died of thirst, some froze to death, some were roasted alive by the scorching sun, and many were tricked by dishonest recruiters with inadequate equipment, dying abroad and buried under lush coconut trees. Others were even pierced through the chest by Pacific islanders and cannibal tribes, becoming a lavish feast for these starving savages. But what does it matter?