Assembled from the accounts of the participants - leaders, mutineers and young gentlemen - which tell of endeavour and defeat at sea and in hostile terrain, this is a study of the last voyages of Thomas Cavendish, Henry Hudson and Sir Walter Ralegh. Editor(s): Edwards, Philip. Num Pages: 278 pages, frontispiece, 6 halftones, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; HBJD1; HBLH; RGR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 488. . 1988. Illustrated. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Last Voyages: Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh. The Original Narratives
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Publication Date: 1989
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0198128940
ISBN 13: 9780198128946
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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The narratives of the voyages of the Elizabethan and early Jacobean era have delighted readers over the centuries as stirring accounts of the daring of empire-builders. In the belief that in our post-imperial era these writings can be seen as a powerful and special kind of literature, having kinship with the great fictional tragedies of the period, Philip Edwards here collects the contemporary accounts of three famous "last voyages". Written by the participants themselves--leaders, mutineers, young gentlemen, and a poet and mathematician--the narratives recount moving stories of endeavor and defeat in the face of difficult seas and hostile terrain. There is Thomas Cavendish's fatal attempt in 1591-92 to repeat his earlier triumphant circumnavigation; Henry Hudson's last attempt to find the North-West Passage in 1610-11, in which he was ultimately set adrift on the ice by his own crew; and Sir Walter Raliegh's failed attempt to find gold in Guiana in 1617-18, before returning to England and execution. All the narratives are given in modern spelling and have been newly re-edited from the original manuscripts or printings. Edwards's introductions correct a number of historical inaccuracies, and he includes a full explanatory commentary.

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