Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession: The Tragic Legacy of the New World's Least Understood Explorer

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Was Henry Hudson one of the boldest explorers of all time, or was he merely an accidental tourist who stumbled into history? Was he the world's worst ship's captain, master of four failed expeditions, enabler of at least three mutinies, which ultimately led to his own death at the hands of his crew? Was he secretly spying for the British while sailing for the Dutch?

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Was Henry Hudson one of the boldest explorers of all time, or was he merely an accidental tourist who stumbled into history? Was he the world's worst ship's captain, master of four failed expeditions, enabler of at least three mutinies, which ultimately led to his own death at the hands of his crew? Was he secretly spying for the British while sailing for the Dutch?

In a unique mix of travel essay and historical sleuthing, Corey Sandler tracks down the Henry Hudson that time forgot, giving us a fascinating portrait of a tragic hero in the Age of Discovery. Through the journals and logbooks of the great explorer and his crew, Sandler retraced Hudson's journey during a yearlong, 25,000-mile trek to England, the North Pole, and deep into Canadian wilderness areas accessible only by boat.

Illuminating questions that have puzzled historians for four centuries, Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession takes us back to a time of bold and harrowing adventure, while searching the present for traces of Henry Hudson in some of the planet's most obscure and mysterious places.

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Sandler excels ... he puts us there with Hudson and his men. One of the most interesting accounts ... a pleasure.
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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780806528533
  • Publisher: Kensington Publishing Corporation
  • Publication date: 4/1/2008
  • Pages: 250
  • Product dimensions: 6.10 (w) x 8.98 (h) x 1.26 (d)

Meet the Author

Corey Sandler is the author of over one hundred travel books with over two million copies in print. He has appeared on NBC's Today show and National Public Radio, and has been profiled on CNN. He lives on Nantucket Island, off the coast of Massachusetts. Please visit his website, www.coreysandler.com.
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     ix
Preface     xi
Introduction: Why Did Henry Hudson Go to Sea?     1
Ice and Fire     13
The Northeast-Northwest Obsession     15
Ashes, Ashes, All Fall Down     28
Voyage One: From London to Svalbard and the Ice     38
A Dead End at the Top of the World     58
Longyearbyen: No-Man's-Land     72
The Vikings, the Coal Company Town, and Mary Baker Eddy     91
To Russia's Attic     105
Voyage Two: Unicorns, Mermaids, and Unrest     107
The Forbidden City     121
The Third Voyage: A U-Turn into History     137
An English Captain on a Dutch Ship     139
Voyage Three: London to New York, via Novaya Zemlya     148
Up the Hudson River     159
From a Tear of the Clouds to a Flooded Grand Canyon     170
The River Polluted     188
The Conscience of the River     203
The Half Moon Sails Again     218
Hudson's Obscure Monuments     232
The Hudson through Modern Eyes     242
Direct to the Furious Overfall and Hudson's Dead End     253
Voyage Four: Hudson Sets His Own Course-One-Way to Northern Canada     255
Prickett's Journal: Sanitized for His Protection     262
The End of Hudson's Days     277
The Discovery Comes Home     294
Into Hudson Bay by Icebreaker     304
The Man in the Middle     325
In the Land of the Giants     335
The Disquiet of the Braves     350
The Company Men     361
An Archaeologist in the Bush     369
A Young Man Keeps the Old Traditions     380
Deciphering the Hudson Code     403
Hudson's Bones, Undiscovered     405
Index     417
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  • Posted July 16, 2009

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    Did you ever wonder what it felt like to go to the edge of the world?

    the author is a travel writer, so took an entirely new approach to his subject. much of it centered on current day trips to the places Hudson passed on his journeys - since most are still quite wild (arctic, in fact) the scheme worked. so we encounter, almost as hudson did, hunter gatherers who still find the white men odd. the less successful parts were his review and commentary on historical text (trial transcripts etc). i also wish he had included lots of maps. but bring you own.

    its a new way to see and feel this old topic.

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