Voyages In Search Of The North West Passage

Voyages In Search Of The North West Passage is a book written by Richard Hakluyt. The book is a collection of accounts of voyages made by various explorers in search of the North West Passage, a hypothetical sea route that would connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans through the Arctic Ocean. The book is divided into two parts, the first part covers the voyages made by English explorers, while the second part covers the voyages made by Dutch explorers.The book provides a detailed account of the challenges faced by the explorers during their voyages, including harsh weather conditions, dangerous ice floes, and encounters with indigenous people. The explorers also faced a lack of resources, including food and water, which made their journeys even more difficult.The book includes maps and illustrations that help readers understand the routes taken by the explorers and the areas they explored. It also provides insight into the political and economic motivations behind the voyages and the impact they had on the history of exploration and colonization.Overall, Voyages In Search Of The North West Passage is an important historical document that sheds light on the early attempts to find a sea route through the Arctic and the challenges faced by the explorers who undertook these journeys.If you seek the advice herein of such as make profession in cosmography, Ptolemy, the father of geography, and his eldest children, will answer by their maps with a negative, concluding most of the sea within the land, and making an end of the world northward, near the 63rd degree. The same opinion, when learning chiefly flourished, was received in the Romans' time, as by their poets' writings it may appear.This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the old original and may contain some imperfections such as library marks and notations. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions, that are true to their original work.