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Article: Dutch maps and English ships in the Eastern seas.
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- January 1, 1994
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In 1958, Jan Huygen van Linschoten's Itinerario, the landmark expose of Portuguese Asia, was published in English translation. Thirteen years later, the Eight Voyage of the English East India Company set out on England's first journey by sea to Japan. Richard Pflederer explores the connections between this important book and the beginning of English trade in the Far East.
English commercial and political successes in Asia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries have been well described in popular literature, and today it may be hard to realise that England began its first tentative efforts in Asia about a hundred years behind the Portuguese and Spanish. In ...