The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe, of Hull, and Captain Thomas James, of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631–32: Volume 1
With Narratives of the Earlier North-West Voyages of Frobisher, Davis and Others

Volumes 88–89 of the publications of the Hakluyt Society (1894) describe the search for a North-West Passage.

Miller Christy (Edited by)

9781108013550, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 20 May 2010

524 pages, 2 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.66 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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volumes 88–89 (1884) contain accounts of two captains' searches for a North-West Passage to Asia in 1631. Their explorations were beset by bad weather. Foxe circumnavigated Hudson's Bay before retreating, while James became ice-bound for the winter, losing several members of his crew before retuning to England a year after Foxe. No new attempts were made for another century, as their accounts of the harrowing conditions they endured discouraged further voyages of exploration for the desired trade route.

Editor's preface
Introduction: Preliminary remarks
Voyages preceding those of Foxe and James
Captain Luke Foxe's voyage
Captain Thomas James's voyage
Concluding remarks
Post-script
North-West Fox: Facsimile title-page
Address to the king
Preface to the reader
King Arthur's conquests
Octher's voyage
Voyages of the Zeni and others
Frobisher's first voyage, 1576
Frobisher's second voyage, 1577
Frobisher's third voyage, 1578
Davis's first voyage, 1585
Davis's second voyage, 1586
Davis's third voyage, 1587
Waymouth's voyage, 1602
Hall's first voyage, 1605
Hall's second voyage, 1606
Hall's third voyage, 1607
Hall's fourth voyage, 1612
Knight's voyage, 1606
Hudson's voyage, 1610-11
Button's voyage, 1612-13
Gibbon's voyage, 1614
Bylot and Baffin's first voyage, 1615
Bylot and Baffin's second voyage, 1616
Hawkridge's voyage, ?1617.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]