In 1553 Sir Hugh Willoughby and Richard Chancellor sailed to find a northern passage to the East; Willoughby’s men froze to death on the Arctic coast, while Chancellor reached the White Sea and the court of the Tsar. These narratives from Hakluyt’s great collection tell of that voyage and the trade that followed, together with the much older voyages of Ohthere and Wulfstan.
The founding documents of Anglo-Russian contact, told by the men who were there. Download the free EPUB.