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The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631-32, Vol. 1 of 2
Luke Foxe
Paperback. Forgotten Books 2016-10-07.
ISBN 9781333876715
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Excerpt from The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631-32, Vol. 1 of 2: With Narratives of the Earlier North-West Voyages of Frobisher, Davis, Weymouth, Hall, Knight, Hudson, Button, Gibbons, Bylot, Baffin, Hawkridge, and OthersThe first volume will be found to contain my Introduction (which treats, not only of the voyages of F oxe and James themselves, but also of the earlier voyages which led up to them), together with the first portion of the Norta - West Fox, containing Foxe's account of the north-west voyages preceding his own.The second volume contains the remainder of the Nort/z West Fox (namely, that portion relating to Foxe's own voyage), together with the whole of Captain James's work, and an Appendix containing certain interesting documents referred to in the Introduction.It remains for me to thank the many kind friends who, in the course of my work as Editor, have so liberally responded to my inquiries and requests for information.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works
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