Download or read book Abel Janszoon Tasman: His Life and Voyages written by James Backhouse Walker and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 84 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abel Janszoon Tasman: His Life and Voyages" is the biography of Abel Janszoon Tasman, a Dutch seafarer, explorer, and merchant, best known for his voyages of 1642 and 1644. He was most famous as the first European explorer to reach the islands of Van Diemen's Land (now known as Tasmania) and New Zealand and to sight the Fiji Islands.