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Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 1, The Danish Expeditions to Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607 - In Two Books (Paperback)
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Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 1, The Danish Expeditions to Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607 - In Two Books (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
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The 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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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. This 1897 volume contains
accounts of early seventeenth-century expeditions to Greenland, two
Danish (but piloted by the Englishman John Hall), and one led by
Hall himself, with William Baffin as pilot. This is the first
publication of Hall's report to the Danish king, illustrated with
four maps from the 1605 expedition, which had only recently been
rediscovered. The object of the expeditions was to re-establish
communication with, and commercial exploitation of, what had
formerly been a fertile region colonised by the Danes.
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