Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island

"Account of a Voyage of Discovery to the West Coast of Corea, and the Great Loo-Choo Island" by Basil Hall

was a British Royal Navy officer who served with distinction in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and was tasked with a mission to visit the West coast of Kora, the Gulf of Pecheli, and other lands in the region. This book narrates the adventures had on that voyage which saw Europeans in those waters for the first time in recorded history.