Henry Hudson
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Henry Hudson
He made two attempts, both unsuccessful, to find the northwest passage to Asia. In the second attempt, he sailed from England in the "Discovery" and, after surviving a perillous icebound winter, he was set adrift by his mutinous crew in a bay that we now call Hudson Bay and was never seen again.
Although unsuccessful in finding the northwest passage, Hudson did discover Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay and, in addition, he discovered the area the area that was to be the site of New York City and explored the Hudson River.
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A native Indian looks over New York Harbor to see the arrival of Henry Hudson in 1609
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The surviving records of Henry Hudson's four voyages of 1607-10 are apparently scant but provided enough information to be used in a previous history of his explorations (Donald Johnson's Charting the Sea of Darkness, 1992). Sandler, author of dozens of travel guides, converts the Hudson documentation into a travelogue to several of Hudson's haunts. He traveled somewhat more comfortably than Hudson did, embarking on a cruise ship to Spitzbergen, driving up the Hudson River Valley, and flying to Hudson Bay. Healthily quoting the mariner's logbooks to contrast travel then and now, Sandler also avails himself of the four centuries of history these places have experienced since Hudson sailed by, integrating nuggets of fact with what people have to say about Hudson. Some are quite loquacious on the subject, such as the captain of a replica of Hudson's ship Half Moon. Idiosyncratic, definitely interesting, Sandler will snare the travel/exploration set.
Hudson on Manhattan
"The land is the finest for cultivation that I ever in my life set foot upon, and it also abounds in trees of every description. These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.
-- Henry Hudson, journal entry (as transcribed by a Dutch merchant in 1609)
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Hudson's next expedition ranged further north in search of the Northwest Passage, again under English auspices, leading to his discovery of the Hudson Strait and Hudson Bay. After wintering in the Canadian Arctic, Hudson tried to press on with his voyage in the spring of 1611, but his crew mutinied and cast him adrift. His specific fate is unknown.
Source: Wikipedia
Replica of Henry Hudson's ship Halve Maen, Manhattan, 28 June 2009
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