Author: TOLLENS, Hendrik.
Title: De overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla. Gedicht.
Description: Leeuwarden, G.T.N. Suringar, 1843. 4to. Modern half cloth (old boards). With woodcuts after J.H.J. van den Bergh by Henry Brown. 62 pp. First published in Dutch in 1819: Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in de jaren 1596 en 1597. - Barentsz's journey gradually disappeared from memory. This only changed again around 1810, when Dutch pride revived under French influence. When poet Hendrik Tollens published his sentimental poem Tafereel van de overwintering der Hollanders op Nova Zembla in 1819, in which he called on his fellow countrymen to carry out such deeds again, people were very pleased with this and he received a literature prize for this .A celebrated poem on the Dutch wintering on Novaya Zemlya in a wooden cabin by Willem Barentsz and his crew in 1596-97. - (Waterstained). Cat. NHSM I, p.306; Arctic Bibl. 17782 (other ed.).

Keywords: Arctic Dutch travel Nova Zembla Pole