Аудиокнига: Golden Book of the Dutch Navigators
- Download Dedication, Historical introduction audio
- Download Chapter I. Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Part I audio
- Download Chapter I. Jan Huygen van Linschoten. Part II audio
- Download Chapter II. The Northeast Passage. Part I audio
- Download Chapter II. The Northeast Passage. Part II audio
- Download Chapter III. The Tragedy of Spitzbergen audio
- Download Chapter IV. The First Voyage to India - Failure audio
- Download Chapter V. The Second Voyage to India - Success audio
- Download Chapter VI. Van Noort Circumnavigates the World. Part I audio
- Download Chapter VI. Van Noort Circumnavigates the World. Part II audio
- Download Chapter VII. The Attack Upon the West Coast of America. Part I audio
- Download Chapter VII. The Attack Upon the West Coast of America. Part II audio
- Download Chapter VIII. The Bad Luck of Captain Bontekoe audio
- Download Chapter IX. Schouten and Le Maire Discover a New Strait audio
- Download Chapter X. Tasman Explores Australia audio
- Download Chapter XI. Roggeveen, the Last of the Great Voyagers audio
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This is a story of magnificent failures. The men who equipped the expeditions of which I shall tell you the story died in the poorhouse. The men who took part in these voyages sacrificed their lives as cheerfully as they lighted a new pipe or opened a fresh bottle. Some of them were drowned, and some of them died of thirst. A few were frozen to death, and many were killed by the heat of the scorching sun. But what of it? It was all in the day's work. These excellent fellows took whatever came, be it good or bad, or indifferent, with perfect grace, and kept on smiling. They kept their powder dry, did whatever their hands found to do, and left the rest to the care of that mysterious Providence who probably knew more about the ultimate good of things than they did. - Summary from the preface
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