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Book Purchas his pilgrimes

Download or read book Purchas his pilgrimes written by Samuel Purchas and published by . This book was released on 1625 with total page 1004 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fatal Journey

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  • Author : Peter C. Mancall
  • Publisher : Basic Books
  • Release : 2009-06-09
  • ISBN : 0786747870
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Fatal Journey written by Peter C. Mancall and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-06-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates Hudson's final expedition. In the winter of 1610, after navigating dangerous fields of icebergs near the northern tip of Labrador, Hudson's small ship became trapped in winter ice. Provisions grew scarce and tensions mounted amongst the crew. Within months, the men mutinied, forcing Hudson, his teenage son, and seven other men into a skiff, which they left floating in the Hudson Bay. A story of exploration, desperation, and icebound tragedy, Fatal Journey vividly chronicles the undoing of the great explorer, not by an angry ocean, but at the hands of his own men.

Book Half Moon

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  • Author : Douglas Hunter
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2010-08-31
  • ISBN : 1608190986
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book Half Moon written by Douglas Hunter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tribute to Henry Hudson's discovery of the river that bears his name recounts how the historical explorer defied commission orders to find an eastern passage to China by redirecting his voyage along the coastline from Spanish Florida to the Grand Banks, an effort that laid a foundation for New York's establishment as a global capital. Reprint.

Book Juet s Journal

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  • Author : Robert Juet
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1959
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 56 pages

Download or read book Juet s Journal written by Robert Juet and published by . This book was released on 1959 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Hudson Fulton Celebration

Download or read book Hudson Fulton Celebration written by University of the State of New York and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henry Hudson

Download or read book Henry Hudson written by Corey Sandler and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive and well-researched look at the nearly forgotten story of explorer Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage in the year 1610, this book is a fascinating story of adventure, mutiny, and discovery.

Book The Magnificent Adventures of Henry Hudson

Download or read book The Magnificent Adventures of Henry Hudson written by Philip Vail and published by Sapere Books. This book was released on 2021-03-17 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gripping biography of one of the seventeenth century's greatest sea captains. Courage, ambition and treachery on the high seas... Perfect for fans of Andrew Lambert, Kevin Jackson, N. A. M. Rodger, and Eric Jay Dolin. In June 1611, Henry Hudson, captain of the Discovery, his young son, and seven other crew members were forced into a small gig and set adrift amongst the ice floes of Hudson Bay. They were never seen again. Shy and aloof, yet courageous and sometimes recklessly daring, English explorer and navigator Hudson made four momentous voyages in 1607, 1608, 1609, and 1610, journeys that greatly expanded geographical knowledge of the New World. Yet it was his obsessive search for the elusive northwest passage - a sea route that would open the way to the riches of the Orient - combined with his poor judge of character and inept leadership that would ultimately result in one of the most notorious events in maritime history. Drawing on a wealth of contemporary material, including Hudson's official ships' logs and the private journal he kept during his voyages, Noel B. Gerson vividly brings to life the dramatic events that led to the enactment of the greatest crime on the high seas, mutiny, and the tragic fate of one of England's foremost discoverer-adventurers. The Magnificent Adventures of Henry Hudson masterfully combines the triumphant spirit of early seventeenth-century maritime adventure with the perilous nature of life at sea.

Book A First Book in American History

Download or read book A First Book in American History written by Edward Eggleston and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Henry Hudson

Download or read book Henry Hudson written by Edward Butts and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-12-21 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1607 Henry Hudson was an obscure English sea captain. By 1610 he was an internationally renowned explorer. He made two voyages in search of a Northeast Passage to the Orient and had discovered the Spitzbergen Islands and their valuable whaling grounds. In the process, Hudson had sailed farther north than any other European before him. In 1609, working for the Dutch, he had explored the Hudson River and had made a Dutch colony in America possible. Sailing from England in 1610, on what would be his most famous voyage, Hudson began his search for the Northwest Passage through the Canadian Arctic. This was also his last exploration. Only a few of the men under his command lived to see England again. Hudson's expedition was one of great discovery and even greater disaster. Extreme Arctic conditions and Hudson's own questionable leadership resulted in the most infamous mutiny in Canadian history, and a mystery that remains unsolved.

Book Empire City

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  • Author : Kenneth T. Jackson
  • Publisher : Columbia University Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780231109086
  • Pages : 1026 pages

Download or read book Empire City written by Kenneth T. Jackson and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 1026 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This major anthology brings together the best literary writing about New York--from O. Henry, Theodore Dreiser, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and John Steinbeck to Paul Auster and James Baldwin.

Book American History  A Very Short Introduction

Download or read book American History A Very Short Introduction written by Paul S. Boyer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume in Oxford's A Very Short Introduction series offers a concise, readable narrative of the vast span of American history, from the earliest human migrations to the early twenty-first century when the United States loomed as a global power and comprised a complex multi-cultural society of more than 300 million people. The narrative is organized around major interpretive themes, with facts and dates introduced as needed to illustrate these themes. The emphasis throughout is on clarity and accessibility to the interested non-specialist.

Book The Alchemist

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  • Author : Ben Jonson
  • Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-04-17
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 262 pages

Download or read book The Alchemist written by Ben Jonson and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-04-17 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE greatest of English dramatists except Shakespeare, the first literary dictator and poet-laureate, a writer of verse, prose, satire, and criticism who most potently of all the men of his time affected the subsequent course of English letters: such was Ben Jonson, and as such his strong personality assumes an interest to us almost unparalleled, at least in his age. Ben Jonson came of the stock that was centuries after to give to the world Thomas Carlyle; for Jonson's grandfather was of Annandale, over the Solway, whence he migrated to England. Jonson's father lost his estate under Queen Mary, "having been cast into prison and forfeited." He entered the church, but died a month before his illustrious son was born, leaving his widow and child in poverty. Jonson's birthplace was Westminster, and the time of his birth early in 1573. He was thus nearly ten years Shakespeare's junior, and less well off, if a trifle better born. But Jonson did not profit even by this slight advantage. His mother married beneath her, a wright or bricklayer, and Jonson was for a time apprenticed to the trade.

Book Henry Hudson

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  • Author : Carol Parenzan Smalley
  • Publisher : Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.
  • Release : 2007-09
  • ISBN : 1612287948
  • Pages : 36 pages

Download or read book Henry Hudson written by Carol Parenzan Smalley and published by Mitchell Lane Publishers, Inc.. This book was released on 2007-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: English explorer Henry Hudson set sail four times between 1607 and 1610 to find a new ocean passageway to the Orient, the eastern part of Asia. On his journeys, he discovered the Hudson River in New York state, and the Hudson Bay and Hudson Strait in Canada. This easy-reading biography is just perfect for kids in 6-9,.

Book Map of the World by Jodocus Hondius  1611

Download or read book Map of the World by Jodocus Hondius 1611 written by Edward Luther Stevenson and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book On the Edge

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  • Author : Roger M. McCoy
  • Publisher : OUP USA
  • Release : 2012-07-18
  • ISBN : 0199744041
  • Pages : 264 pages

Download or read book On the Edge written by Roger M. McCoy and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2012-07-18 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book tracks the progress of a four hundred year effort to map the coasts of North America after 1492. A set of maps show the progression of exploration over time, and narratives of the voyages illustrate the trials and dangers faced by the men as they made their maps.