Author: Georg Michael Asher
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 536

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Author: Georg Michael Asher
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 540

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Author: G.M. Asher
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317122623
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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'Collected, partly Translated, and Annotated, with an Introduction'. The supplementary material includes the 1860 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1860.

Author: Georg Michael Asher
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 28

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Author: G. M. ASHER
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781033262467
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Anthony Dalton
Publisher: Heritage House Publishing Co
ISBN: 1772030236
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 144

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From the era of wooden sailing ships and Europe's golden age of exploration, the story of famed British navigator Henry Hudson tells a classic tale of courage, ambition, and treachery on the high seas. As the leader of four Arctic voyages in 1607, 1608, 1609, and 1610, Hudson searched in vain for a navigable route through the polar ice that would open the way to the riches of Asia. In his obsession to succeed, he made reckless decisions that pushed his crew to the brink, with disastrous results. Hudson did not achieve his goal, but as a result of his skillful mapping of Hudson Bay and the Hudson River area, his name would live on as a prominent landmark in the geography and imagination of North America.

Author: Georg Michael Asher
Publisher: Elibron Classics
ISBN: 1402195583
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 534

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This Elibron Classics title is a reprint of the original edition published by the Hakluyt Society in London, 1860.

Author: Georg M. Asher
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780833700988
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Henry Hudson
Publisher: Theclassics.Us
ISBN: 9781230263366
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 156

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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... July, the date where Hudson's share of the log-book is said to begin. If the log-book was, indeed, partly his work, he must have purposely omitted some of his most important explorations. As to John Playse or Pleyce, the probable writer of the whole log-book, next to nothing is known about him. His name occurs only once, as one of the crew of the ship in which the first voyage was performed. There he ranks very low. Among Hudson's eleven companions (one of whom was a boy), Playse's name stands seventh. He must therefore have been a common sailor; and it would be impossible to attribute to him the observations of the needle recorded in the first person on page 2 of his journal.1 These observations, like all the other important parts of Playse's account, are evidently due to Hudson himself. The log-book was probably intended only for Playse's private use, or perhaps also for some other sailor's. It is entirely of a professional nature. It contains, however, many passages of interest for the general reader, and principally those which reveal Hudson's ideas and plans. The descriptions of coasts, capes, harbours, and seas, are without any literary pretension. Still they are striking enough in their simplicity. For the history of geography, the logbook is of the very highest value, although it unfortunately lacks some important information but imperfectly supplied by other sources. The account of the second voyage (to Nova Zem 1 P. 2, li. 5, 1. 16. bla) is likewise a log-book.1 Henry Hudson himself is its author. It commences with the departure from London, April 22, 1608, and concludes with the return to Gravesend, August 26 of the same year. Its character is, in almost every respect, like that of Playse's journal. Some of the descriptions, ..

Author: Georg Michael Asher
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages :

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