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HAMEL, Hendrick. Verhaal van het vergaan van het jacht De Sperwer en van het wedervaren der schipbreukelingen op het eiland Quelpaert en het vasteland van Korea (1653-1666) met eene beschrijving van dat rijk. Uitgegeven door B. Hoetink. 's Gravenhage, Martinus Nijhoff, 1920. Original cloth. With folding map and 11 illustrations. XXX,LIII,165 pp. Linschoten Vereeniging XVIII. - In 1653, while sailing to Japan, Hamel and his crew were shipwrecked off Jeju Island, then part of the state of Joseon. Because of Joseon's isolationist policies, they were refused permission to leave the country. Hamel ended up spending thirteen years in Joseon, until he escaped to a Dutch trading mission on Deshima in 1666. Hendrik Hamel's account of his not voluntary visit to Korea (1653-1666) has long been known as the earliest report in a western language on the land, people and customs of Korea. [Boeknr.: 6178 ]