The voyages of William Baffin : 1612-1622
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The voyages of William Baffin : 1612-1622
（Cambridge library collection, . Travel and Exploration）
Cambridge University Press, c2010
- : pbk
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Reprint. Originally published: London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1881. (Works / issued by the Hakluyt Society ; no. 63)
Includes index
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内容説明
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 The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 1881 volume contains accounts by William Baffin (1584-1622) and others of Baffin's voyages exploring the coasts of Greenland and Spitsbergen, and his search for the North-West Passage. Although he did not find a route east, he got considerably further north than previous navigators, and provided much useful information on the conditions and natural resources of the area. His meticulous chart making and record keeping, and his use of lunar observations to calculate longitude, were groundbreaking and remarkably accurate, as later explorers found.
目次
- Introduction
- The first recorded voyage of William Baffin
- The second recorded voyage of William Baffin
- The third recorded voyage of William Baffin
- The fourth recorded voyage of William Baffin
- The fifth recorded voyage of William Baffin
- Discourse as to a North-west Passage
- Index.
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