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The Final Expedition of Henry Hudson
Basic Books
June 2009
On Sale: June 9, 2009
320 pages
ISBN: 046500511X
EAN: 9780465005116
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
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.
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