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The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe, of Hull, and Captain Thomas James, of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631-32: Volume 2 - With Narratives of the Earlier North-West Voyages of Frobisher, Davis and Others (Paperback)
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The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe, of Hull, and Captain Thomas James, of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631-32: Volume 2 - With Narratives of the Earlier North-West Voyages of Frobisher, Davis and Others (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unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir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. Volumes 88-89 (1884)
contain accounts of two captains' searches for a North-West Passage
to Asia in 1631. Their explorations were beset by bad weather. Foxe
circumnavigated Hudson's Bay before retreating, while James became
ice-bound for the winter, losing several members of his crew before
retuning to England a year after Foxe. No new attempts were made
for another century, as their accounts of the harrowing conditions
they endured discouraged further voyages of exploration for the
desired trade route.
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