Voyages In Search of the North-West Passage Voyages In Search of the North-West Passage

Voyages In Search of the North-West Passage

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Voyages In Search of the North-West Passage by Richard Hakluyt.

As preface to Richard Hakluyt’s records of the first endeavour of our bold Elizabethan mariners to find North-West Passage to the East, let me repeat here that old voyage of mine from No. 55 of “Household Words,” dated the 12th of April, 1851: The Phantom is fitted out for Arctic exploration, with instructions to find her way, by the north-west, to Behring Straits, and take the South Pole on her passage home.  

Just now we steer due north, and yonder is the coast of Norway.  From that coast parted Hugh Willoughby, three hundred years ago; the first of our countrymen who wrought an ice-bound highway to Cathay.  Two years afterwards his ships were found, in the haven of Arzina, in Lapland, by some Russian fishermen; near and about them Willoughby and his companions—seventy dead men.

GENRE
History
RELEASED
2017
5 July
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
201
Pages
PUBLISHER
BertaBooks
SELLER
StreetLib Srl
SIZE
788.1
KB

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