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Fatal Journey
Peter C. Mancall
其他書名
The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson
出版Basic Books, 2009-06-09
主題History / Expeditions & Discoveries
ISBN07867478709780786747870
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=g5oaMA24ow0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.