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Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 2, The Expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson's Bay in Search of a North-West Passage in 1619-20 - In Two Books (Paperback)
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Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 2, The Expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson's Bay in Search of a North-West Passage in 1619-20 - 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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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
the first English translation of Jens Munk's Navigatio
Septentrionalis, his account of the Danish expedition of 1619-1620
in search of a North-West Passage to Asia. They reached Hudson's
Bay and explored it, producing the first map to show the whole
area. However, they were poorly prepared for the conditions there,
and almost all the crew died from cold, hunger or disease. They
returned to Denmark the following year, and although another
expedition was planned, it did not take place.
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