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Last Voyages - Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh. The Original Narratives (Hardcover)
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Last Voyages - Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh. The Original Narratives (Hardcover)
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The narratives of the voyages of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean
era have served their turn over the centuries as stirring accounts
of the daring of the empire-builders. In this collection of the
contemporary accounts of three famous 'last voyages', these
writings can be seen as a powerful and special kind of literature,
having kinship with the great fictional tragedies of the period.
Thomas Cavendish attempted in 1591 to repeat his earlier triumphant
circumnavigation of the globe, but could not get through the
Magellan Straits and died at sea, probably by his own hand, on the
voyage home. Henry Hudson, making yet another attempt to find the
North-West Passage in 1610-11, was set adrift in the ice by his own
crew. Sir Walter Ralegh, released from the Tower, failed to find
the Guiana gold in 1617-18 and came home to the executioner's axe.
The men who wrote the accounts of these disastrous ventures were
the participants themselves: the leaders, the mutineers, young
gentlemen, even a poet and a mathematician. Apart from the poet,
none were writing for a living, though some of them were writing
for their lives, passionately justifying or exonerating themselves,
challenging and contradicting each other. Brought together, their
accounts form moving documents of endeavour and defeat in difficult
seas and hostile terrain. All the narratives, given in modern
spelling, have been newly re-edited from the original manuscripts
or printings, with ample introductions which correct the existing
historical record on a number of points, and with full explanatory
commentary.
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