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INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
(Number (ISBN
9780511697647 (ebook)
NATIONAL BIBLIOGRAPHY NUMBER
Number
b502836
TITLE AND STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITY
Title Proper
Voyages of William Baffin, 1612-1622 /
General Material Designation
[Book]
First Statement of Responsibility
Edited by Clements R. Markham.
.PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Cambridge :
Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.
Place of publication not identified :
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
Cambridge University Press.
Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.
publisher not identified,
Date of Publication, Distribution, etc.
1881.
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Specific Material Designation and Extent of Item
1 online resource (284 pages) :
Other Physical Details
digital, PDF file(s)
SERIES
Series Title
Cambridge library collection. Hakluyt First Series.
GENERAL NOTES
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
Text of Note
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This 1881 volume contains accounts by William Baffin (1584-1622) and others of Baffin's voyages exploring the coasts of Greenland and Spitsbergen, and his search for the North-West Passage. Although he did not find a route east, he got considerably further north than previous navigators, and provided much useful information on the conditions and natural resources of the area. His meticulous chart making and record keeping, and his use of lunar observations to calculate longitude, were groundbreaking and remarkably accurate, as later explorers found.
PERSONAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Baffin, William,1584-1622.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Greenland.
Northwest Passage, Discovery and exploration, British.
Spitsbergen Island (Norway)
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PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Markham, Clements R., (Clements Robert),Sir,1830-1916
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Date of Transaction
20151005020623.0
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