Format:
Online-Ressource (vi, xx, 259 p)
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Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9781409412717
Series Statement:
Hakluyt Society, First Ser. v.5
Content:
Cover -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- Of the Claims of Sir Hugh Willoughby to be considered a Discoverer -- Of the probability of an Englishman named Wm. Adams, having made a voyage to Spitzbergen, A.D. 1595 -- NARRATIVES -- 1496 SEBASTIAN CABOTA -- from Hakluyt -- SIR MARTIN FROBISHER -- 1576 1st voyage -- 1577 2nd voyage -- 1578 3rd voyage -- 1581 4th voyage -- MASTER JOHN DAVIS -- 1585 1st voyage -- 1586 2nd voyage -- 1587 3rd voyage -- CAPTAIN GEORGE WAYMOUTH -- 1601 Preliminary Proceedings -- I. Instruments of Navigation -- II. Provisions -- III. Apparel -- IV. Muster-roll and wages -- V. Miscellaneous -- 1602 Voyage -- from Purchas -- Proceedings subsequent to the voyage -- from E. I. Mss. -- 1606 MASTER JOHN KNIGHT -- from Purchas -- 1610 MASTER HENRY HUDSON -- from Purchas -- 1612 SIR THOMAS BUTTON: -- Instructions for the voyage, given by Henry Prince of Wales, from a rare fac-simile of the original document -- Voyage -- from North-west Foxe -- 1612 JAMES HALL -- from Purchas -- 1614 CAPTAIN GIBBONS -- from North-west Foxe -- BYLOT AND BAFFIN -- 1615 Chart of the Track within Resolution Island, from an autograph draft by Baffin (Mss. Brit. Mus.) -- Prefatory remarks -- I. Letter from Baffin to Sir Thomas Smith, and others -- from the writer's autograph (Mss. Brit. Mus.) -- II. The Breefe Iournall of pertyculer courses, latytudes, longitudes, windes, leagues run, and varyation of the compas -- from the navigator's autograph (Mss. Brit. Mus.) -- III. A Tru Relation of such thinges as happened during the voyage of 1615 -- from Baffin's autograph (Mss. Brit. Mus.) -- The forme of the harboure we weare in", on the W. side of Resolution Island, 1 June 1615 -- from a sketch by Baffin (Mss. Brit. Mus.) -- 1616 Observations on charges made against Baffin in connexion with his discoveries in Baffin's Bay -- Voyage -- from Purchas.
Note:
Reprint of the 1849 ed. published by the Hakluyt Society
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Includes bibliographical references
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409415107
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781409412717
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781409412717
Language:
English
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