Janvier gives a short life of Henry Hudson, the English navigator who sought a northern passage to Asia, sailed up the river that bears his name in 1609 and was set adrift by his crew in Hudson Bay in 1611. He adds documents from the trial of the mutineers, which he presents as published for the first time, and weighs Abacuk Prickett’s account of the voyage.
A compact study of one of exploration’s great mysteries, issued for the Hudson tercentenary of 1909. Download the free EPUB.