Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620 2 Volume Paperback Set
Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620 2 Volume Paperback Set
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GBPThe publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. These two volumes contain accounts of early seventeenth-century expeditions to Greenland and Hudson's Bay, chiefly under the Danish flag. Although none succeeded in their object, which was to re-establish Danish communication with and commercial exploitation of Greenland, and to find a North-West Passage to Asia, they added greatly to knowledge of the Arctic, and provided maps for future exploration.
Product details
October 2010Multiple copy pack
9781108012942
694 pages
216 × 141 × 46 mm
0.96kg
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Table of Contents
- Volume 1: Editor's preface
- Introduction
- A report to King Christian IV of Denmark on the Danish expedition to Greenland, under the command of Captain John Cunningham, in 1605 James Hall
- Another account of the Danish expedition to Greenland under the command of Captain John Cunningham, in 1605 James Hall, as abbreviated by the Rev. Samuel Purchas
- An account of the Danish expedition to Greenland, under the command of Captain Godske Lindenow, in 1606 James Hall, as abbreviated by the Rev. Samuel Purchas
- An account of the English expedition to Greenland, under the command of Captain James Hall, in 1612 John Gatonbe
- Another account of the latter part of the English expedition to Greenland, under the command of Captain James Hall, in 1612 William Baffin, as abbreviated by the Rev. Samuel Purchas
- Appendices
- Index. Volume 2: Introduction
- Jens Munk's 'Navigatio Septentrionalis'
- Commentary
- Index.
