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  • Volume 2: The Expedition of Captain Jens Munk to Hudson’s Bay in Search of a North-West Passage in 1619–20
  • Edited by C. C. A. Gosch
Publisher:
Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:
November 2015
Print publication year:
2010
First published in:
1897
Online ISBN:
9780511708466
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511708466
Subjects:
Area Studies, Regional and World History: General Interest, European History: General Interest, European History after 1450, History, Regional History after 1500, European Studies
Series:
Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series
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Book description

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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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