Henry Hudson the Navigator
The Original Documents in which his Career is Recorded

This volume, published in 1860, contains writings by and contemporary accounts of Henry Hudson, who died about 1611.

George Michael Asher (Edited by)

9781108010481, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 1 April 2010

548 pages, 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 3.1 cm, 0.69 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 volume (1860) is a documentary biography of Henry Hudson, who was presumed dead around 1611 after being cast adrift in a small boat in Arctic waters by his mutinous crew. The documents include accounts of voyages by Hudson himself, entries from his journal, extracts from the archives of the Dutch East India Company, and the self-justificatory account of Habbakuk Prickett, one of the mutineers. An introduction puts Hudson's voyages in the context of other contemporary voyages of exploration, and assesses his achievement.

Introduction
1. Divers voyages and northerne discoveries of that worthy discoverer Henry Hudson
2. A larger discourse of the same voyage and the success theorof, written by Abacuk Pricket
3. A note found in the deske of Thomas Wydowse, student of mathematics, one of them who was put into the shallop
4. Of Hudson's discoveries and death
5. Hudson's first voyage (1607)
Captain Fotherby's statement concerning Hudson's journal of his first voyage
6. Hudson's third voyage (1609)
7. Extracts relating to Hudson's third voyage (1609)
8. Extracts containing some original information about Hudson's third voyage
9. Extracts concerning Hudson's third voyage (1609)
10. American traditions concerning the third voyage (1609)
11. An extract from Captain Luke Foxe's description of Hudson's fourth voyage
12. Hessel Gerritz's various accounts of Hudson's two last voyages
Appendices
Index.

Subject Areas: Colonialism & imperialism [HBTQ]