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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.
Editorial Reviews
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Fatal Journey is a short and dependable guide to what befell a great but flawed explorer.—The Washington Post
Publishers Weekly
In April 1610, Henry Hudson set sail on the Discovery with a crew of 22 (including his 17-year-old son) on his fourth expedition in search of a shorter route to the Far East. USC historian Mancall (Hakluyt's Promise) vividly recreates the eager anticipation of the voyage, the lust for conquest and for spices, the voyage's risks and the joy and terrors that Hudson and his crew faced. But as winter approached, rather than return to England, Hudson set anchor in the bay named for him. Stuck in ice for seven months, their provisions dwindling, the crew mutinied in the spring, forcing Hudson, his son and seven other sailors into a skiff left floating in the bay. When the mariners on the Discovery returned to England without Hudson, they were tried for murder but never convicted. As for Hudson and the rest, their remains were never found and their fate is the stuff of legend. As Mancall so eloquently points out, the resolute will that had served Hudson so well in reaching this summit of exploration also made him unwilling to abandon his goal and led to his demise. Illus., map. (June)
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When Henry Hudson discovered the river he named after himself in 1609, no one could have foreseen his controversial death about two years later. In this well-researched study, historian Mancall (Hakluyt's Promise) focuses on Hudson's next and final voyage and tries to unravel the mystery surrounding the mutiny of Hudson's crew in June 1611, which left Hudson, his son, and seven others adrift in James Bay. Leaving England in 1610 in search of the Northwest Passage, Hudson's Discovery sailed into what we now call Hudson Bay and was trapped in the ice for the long polar winter. Mancall describes Hudson as "a man of few words," as evidenced by the lack of known records detailing the crew's conditions and morale prior to the mutiny. Instead, Mancall fills in the gaps by relying on known sources, including crewman Abacuk Pricket's narrative, testimony from the survivors' murder trial, and accounts by later explorers. VERDICT While this book does not solve the mystery of what happened to Hudson, it does offer general readers excellent insight into 17th-century maritime exploration. Recommended for both lay readers and students of early North American history.—Margaret Atwater Singer, Univ. of Evansville Libs., IN
—Margaret Atwater Singer
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Peter C. Mancall is Professor of History and Anthropology at the University of Southern California, as well as Director of the USC–Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute. He is the author of Hakluyt’s Promise and At the Edge of Empire. He lives in Los Angeles.
Table of Contents
I Mutiny 1
II The Age of Spices 19
III The Northern Sailor 41
IV The North Atlantic 77
V The Labyrinth Without End 91
VI Assaults 119
VII Interrogations 147
VIII Dead Ends 165
IX The Trial 185
X Tides 211
Note on Sources 237
Notes 249
Acknowledgments 287
Index 289