The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631-32

With Narratives of the earlier North-West Voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge, and others Volume II
Herausgeber: Christy, Miller

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Continues First Series 88, with which it has a continuous main pagination. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1894. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce the 'reduced facsimile of Foxste Chart' which appeared inthe first edition of this volume.

Produktdetails

• Hakluyt Society, First Series
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 456
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juli 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 160mm x 242mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9781409413561
• ISBN-10: 140941356X
• Artikelnr.: 57053117

Autorenporträt

Miller Christy

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Foxe's preparations
Foxe's own voyage, 1631
Foxe's reasons for not wintering
Foxe on the probability of finding a North-West Passage
Foxe's postscript
James's Strange and Dangerous Voyage: Facsimile title-page
Letter from Thomas Nash
Address to the king
James's preparations
James's voyage, 1631-32
James's letter left at Charlton Island
James's list of instruments
James's observations
Gellibrand on longitude
Watt's address to the Cambridge divinity students
Appendices
Index.