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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 Hudsonβs final expedition. In the winter of 1610, after navigating dangerous fields of icebergs near the northern tip of Labrador, Hudsonβs 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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