Last voyages Cavendish, Hudson, Ralegh The original narratives edited by Philip Edwards - New York Oxford University Press 1988 - 268 pages

Includes Index

The Last Voyage of Thomas Cavendish, 1591-1593 -- Cavendish and his Voyages -- Cavendish's Narrative -- Antony Knivet -- John Davis -- John Jane -- Thomas Lodge -- Narratives -- The Circumnavigation, 1588 -- Samuel Purchas, 1625 -- Cavendish's Narrative -- Antony Knivet -- John Davis -- John Jane -- Thomas Lodge -- The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson, 1610-1611 -- Narratives -- Henry Hudson -- Abacuck Pricket -- Thomas Woodhouse -- The Last Voyage of Sir Walter Ralegh, 1617-1618 -- The Voyage -- The Documents -- Narratives -- Ralegh's Journal -- The Letter to Sir Ralph Winwood -- The Letter to Lady Ralegh -- The 'Apology' -- The Letter to George, Lord Carew -- The Letter to King James I.

Assembled from the accounts of the participants - leaders, mutineers and young gentlemen - which tell of endeavour and defeat at sea and in hostile terrain, this is a study of the last voyages of Thomas Cavendish, Henry Hudson and Sir Walter Ralegh.

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America--Discovery and Exploration--English
English prose literature--History and criticism-- Early modern, 1500-1700
Voyages and travels

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