Order Nova Zembla is an 'adventurous novel, that you can't put away once you start reading' about the expeditions dispatched by the Rijksmuseum and University of Amsterdam to Novaya Zemlya in 1993 and 1995. This book presents an overview of historical sources to the research, including newspaper reports that date more than a century back. The scientists were asked to reconstruct Willem Barents' wintering camp 'The Saved House' and to search Novaya Zemlya's shore for his grave. Expedition photographer Rene Gerritsen captured the discoveries of this adventure on film. Also included are the accounts of a Dutch pilot who in 1991 participated in a modern attempt under direction of the eccentric Russian admiral Dmitri Kravchenko to travel the Northeast Passage to Asia.
Science is the work of man.
Uitgeverij Jan Mets, Amsterdam 1997. They unearthed the remains of the Saved House and Barents' ship, and also visited other places on Novaya Zemlya related to the 16th-century explorations of the Russian Arctic. Maritime archaeologists, historians, post-Medieval archaeologists, biologists and geologists researched various interrelated aspects of the Dutch wintering. Northbound provides new archaeological information on the Dutch wintering site of 1596-1597 and the possible location of Barents' grave. This book also introduces the historical and geographical context of the Dutch explorations.