Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession ; [the Tragic Legacy of the New World's Least Understood Explorer]The definitive, yet nearly forgotten, story of explorer Henry Hudson's search for the Northwest Passage in the year 1610, based on the journals and logbooks of Hudson and his crew. This is the most comprehensive book to date on the life and legacy of this remarkable man and has been painstakingly research by Corey Sandler who has also meticulously retraced the sea routes used by Hudson. Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession also aims to answer the question that has puzzled historians for generations; namely, was Hudson a great success or a colossal failure. |
Contents
Why Did Henry Hudson Go to Sea? | 1 |
The NortheastNorthwest Obsession | 15 |
Ashes Ashes All Fall Down | 28 |
From London to Svalbard and the Ice | 38 |
A Dead End at the Top of the World | 58 |
NoMansLand | 72 |
The Vikings the Coal Company Town | 91 |
Unicorns Mermaids and Unrest | 107 |
Direct to the Furious Overfall and Hudsons Dead End | 253 |
Hudson Sets His Own Course OneWay to Northern Canada | 255 |
Sanitized for His Protection | 262 |
The End of Hudsons Days | 277 |
The Discovery Comes Home | 294 |
Into Hudson Bay by Icebreaker | 304 |
The Man in the Middle | 325 |
In the Land of the Giants | 335 |
The Forbidden City | 121 |
The Third Voyage A UTurn into History | 137 |
From a Tear of the Clouds to a Flooded Grand Canyon | 170 |
The River Polluted | 188 |
The Conscience of the River | 203 |
The Half Moon Sails Again | 218 |
Hudsons Obscure Monuments | 232 |
The Hudson through Modern Eyes | 242 |
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