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| Data.No. | 476 |
Title
Annotation | An Account of the SHIPWRECK of a Dutch Vessel on the Coast of the Isle of QUELPAERT together with the Description of the Kingdom of COREA/Hamel
paperback,8 vo. 55pages.
Author of this book,Hendrik Hamel sailed as the ship''s secretary from Texel to Batavia on ''De Sperwer'' in January 1653. After visiting Batavia and Formosa, the ship set sail for Japan with the newly appointed V.O.C. governor for Korea, Cornelis Lessen, on board. Unfortunately the ship wrecked at the coast of an unknown island near Korea, which they named the Isle of Quelparts. Many of the crew drowned. Those who survived, including Hamel, went ashore, where they were imprisoned by the Koreans and brought to the main land where they were held for no less than thirteen years. In 1666 Hamel and a few of his companions succeeded to escape and they managed to reach Japan. In 1668 they arrived back in the Netherlands. Still in the same year the account of his misadventures was published at Rotterdam by Joh. Stichter. Hamel''s account, which is the first Western eyewitness of Korea, became very popular, and was not only translated into French(in 1670) , but also, in 1704 and 1732, into English with the title An account of the shipwreck of a Dutch vessel on the coast of the Isle of Quelpaert.
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| Author | Hamel Hendrik |
| Publisher | Translated out of French(The Korea Brach of Royal Asiatic Society) |
| Pub.Year(s) | 1918 |
| Language | English |
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