The Polar Voyagers, Volume 1Discusses the exploits of Willem Barents, John Cabot, Sebastian Cabot, John Davis, Gerritt de Veer, Captain Luke Foxe, Martin Frobisher, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Henry Greene, Samuel Hearne, Henry Hudson, Thomas James, Robert Juet, Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Abacuk Prickett, Pierre-Esprit Radisson, and others. |
Contents
The People at the End of the Earth | 11 |
The Viking Sea Darers | 43 |
The Cabots in Quest of Cathay | 64 |
Copyright | |
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