Danish Arctic Expeditions, 1605 to 1620: Volume 1, The Danish Expeditions to Greenland in 1605, 1606, and 1607
In Two Books

Eye-witness accounts of Danish and English expeditions to Greenland in the early seventeenth century, including newly rediscovered original maps.

C. C. A. Gosch (Edited by)

9781108012928, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 31 August 2010

360 pages, 10 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2 cm, 0.46 kg

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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 accounts of early seventeenth-century expeditions to Greenland, two Danish (but piloted by the Englishman John Hall), and one led by Hall himself, with William Baffin as pilot. This is the first publication of Hall's report to the Danish king, illustrated with four maps from the 1605 expedition, which had only recently been rediscovered. The object of the expeditions was to re-establish communication with, and commercial exploitation of, what had formerly been a fertile region colonised by the Danes.

Editor's preface
Introduction
A report to King Christian IV of Denmark on the Danish expedition to Greenland, under the command of Captain John Cunningham, in 1605 James Hall
Another account of the Danish expedition to Greenland under the command of Captain John Cunningham, in 1605 James Hall, as abbreviated by the Rev. Samuel Purchas
An account of the Danish expedition to Greenland, under the command of Captain Godske Lindenow, in 1606 James Hall, as abbreviated by the Rev. Samuel Purchas
An account of the English expedition to Greenland, under the command of Captain James Hall, in 1612 John Gatonbe
Another account of the latter part of the English expedition to Greenland, under the command of Captain James Hall, in 1612 William Baffin, as abbreviated by the Rev. Samuel Purchas
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: European history [HBJD]