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A chronicle of Henry Hudson and his ill-fated search for a passage to the Orient through the Arctic circle discusses how his epic search would eventually lead him to his death.
Author : Joan E. Goodman
Publisher : New York : Mikaya Press ; Willowdale, Ont. : Distributed in North America by Firefly Books
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 35,99 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0965049388
A chronicle of Henry Hudson and his ill-fated search for a passage to the Orient through the Arctic circle discusses how his epic search would eventually lead him to his death.
Author : Joan Elizabeth Goodman
Publisher : Great Explorers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 19,84 MB
Release : 2015-09-17
Category : America
ISBN : 9781931414579
An account of Henry Hudson's four voyages in search of a passage to the Orient in the early seventeenth century and the discoveries made by him on the northeastern coast of America.
Author : Peter C. Mancall
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 48,80 MB
Release : 2009-06-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0786747870
The English explorer Henry Hudson devoted his life to the search for a water route through America, becoming the first European to navigate the Hudson River in the process. In Fatal Journey, acclaimed historian and biographer Peter C. Mancall narrates Hudson's final expedition. In the winter of 1610, after navigating dangerous fields of icebergs near the northern tip of Labrador, Hudson's small ship became trapped in winter ice. Provisions grew scarce and tensions mounted amongst the crew. Within months, the men mutinied, forcing Hudson, his teenage son, and seven other men into a skiff, which they left floating in the Hudson Bay. A story of exploration, desperation, and icebound tragedy, Fatal Journey vividly chronicles the undoing of the great explorer, not by an angry ocean, but at the hands of his own men.
Author : Josepha Sherman
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 15,4 MB
Release : 2002-12-15
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780823936205
Outlines the events of this English explorer's famous Arctic journeys and his search for the Northwest Passage to Asia.
Author : Janice Weaver
Publisher : Tundra Books
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 33,89 MB
Release : 2011-11-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1770490965
History has not been kind to Henry Hudson. He's been dismissed as a short-tempered man who played favorites with his crew and had an unstoppable ambition and tenacity. Although he gave his name to a mighty river, an important strait, and a huge bay, today he is remembered more for the mutiny that took his life. The grandson of a trader, Hudson sailed under both British and Dutch flags, looking for a northern route to China. Although none of his voyages led to the discovery of a northwest passage, he did explore what is now Hudson's Bay and what is now New York City. Whatever his personal shortcomings, to sail through dangerous, ice-filled waters with only a small crew in a rickety old boat, he must have been someone of rare courage and vision. In Hudson, Janice Weaver has created a compelling portrait of a man who should be remembered not for his tragic end, but for the way he advanced our understanding of the world.
Author : Carol Parenzan Smalley
Publisher : Mitchell Lane
Page : 46 pages
File Size : 10,46 MB
Release : 2020-02-10
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1545750319
Explorer Henry Hudson was famous in life and death. Between 1607 and 1611, he led four voyages to find a passage from Europe to the Orient. Although he failed to reach Asia by water, he did discover the Hudson River, Hudson Bay, and Hudson Strait. He traveled in dangerous seas. Ice struck his sailing vessels, and his crew suffered from freezing conditions. On his final voyage, his men rebelled. They forced Hudson, his son John, and seven other crew members aboard a small boat and set them adrift to die. The rest of the crew returned to its home port without its captain. They were found not guilty of mutiny-but Hudson and the other maroons were never heard from again.
Author : Susan Wise Bauer
Publisher : Peace Hill Press
Page : 418 pages
File Size : 35,19 MB
Release : 2004-09-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 0972860320
Presents a history of the ancient world, from 6000 B.C. to 400 A.D.
Author : Nathaniel Philbrick
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2004-10-26
Category : History
ISBN : 1440649103
"A treasure of a book."—David McCullough The harrowing story of a pathbreaking naval expedition that set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean, dwarfing Lewis and Clark with its discoveries, from the New York Times bestselling author of Valiant Ambition and In the Hurricane's Eye. A New York Times Notable Book America's first frontier was not the West; it was the sea, and no one writes more eloquently about that watery wilderness than Nathaniel Philbrick. In his bestselling In the Heart of the Sea Philbrick probed the nightmarish dangers of the vast Pacific. Now, in an epic sea adventure, he writes about one of the most ambitious voyages of discovery the Western world has ever seen—the U.S. Exploring Expedition of 1838–1842. On a scale that dwarfed the journey of Lewis and Clark, six magnificent sailing vessels and a crew of hundreds set out to map the entire Pacific Ocean and ended up naming the newly discovered continent of Antarctica, collecting what would become the basis of the Smithsonian Institution. Combining spellbinding human drama and meticulous research, Philbrick reconstructs the dark saga of the voyage to show why, instead of being celebrated and revered as that of Lewis and Clark, it has—until now—been relegated to a footnote in the national memory. Winner of the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Naval History Prize
Author : Amie Hazleton
Publisher : Capstone
Page : 33 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1515742091
Explore the life of Henry Hudson in this captivating biography. In the early 1600s, England was amid the many countries in search of a northern passage to trade with the Far East. After many explorers failed, Henry Hudson was asked to try. Follow along the brave journey of Hudson and learn the importance of his voyage through the Northwest Passage.
Author : Mark Kurlansky
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 46,19 MB
Release : 2007-01-09
Category : History
ISBN : 1588365913
Before New York City was the Big Apple, it could have been called the Big Oyster. Now award-winning author Mark Kurlansky tells the remarkable story of New York by following the trajectory of one of its most fascinating inhabitants–the oyster, whose influence on the great metropolis remains unparalleled. For centuries New York was famous for its oysters, which until the early 1900s played such a dominant a role in the city’s economy, gastronomy, and ecology that the abundant bivalves were Gotham’s most celebrated export, a staple food for the wealthy, the poor, and tourists alike, and the primary natural defense against pollution for the city’s congested waterways. Filled with cultural, historical, and culinary insight–along with historic recipes, maps, drawings, and photos–this dynamic narrative sweeps readers from the island hunting ground of the Lenape Indians to the death of the oyster beds and the rise of America’s environmentalist movement, from the oyster cellars of the rough-and-tumble Five Points slums to Manhattan’s Gilded Age dining chambers. Kurlansky brings characters vividly to life while recounting dramatic incidents that changed the course of New York history. Here are the stories behind Peter Stuyvesant’s peg leg and Robert Fulton’s “Folly”; the oyster merchant and pioneering African American leader Thomas Downing; the birth of the business lunch at Delmonico’s; early feminist Fanny Fern, one of the highest-paid newspaper writers in the city; even “Diamond” Jim Brady, who we discover was not the gourmand of popular legend. With The Big Oyster, Mark Kurlansky serves up history at its most engrossing, entertaining, and delicious.