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The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
Edited, with notes and an introduction from narratives and journals by John Gatonbe, Robert Fotherby, and others, with Baffin's letters, journals, and other observations, and various treatises on the probability of a North-West Passage. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1881. Owing to technical constraints it has not been possible to reproduce 'The Map of Coast of Arabia and entrance to the Pendant Gulf' which appeared on p.xliii of the first edition of this volume.
The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
Historical background and publication of Baffin's recorded Arctic voyages.
The Voyages William Baffin, 1612-1622
Excerpt from The Voyages William Baffin, 1612-1622: Edited, With Notes and an Introduction William Baffin, the narratives of whose voyages are now for the first time collected in a single volume, occupies a deservedly high place in the list of our early navigators. Although he is only known to us during the last twelve years of his life, and his previous history is an absolute blank, yet the record of those later achievements secures for him an honourable niche in England's temple of fame. He was a daring seaman, a scientific observer, and a great discoverer. I propose, in this Introduction, to consider Baffin's position successively in those three capacities. But it will, I believe, be alik...
The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
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The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.
The Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622
The voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622. 292 Pages.
