Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
Voyages in Search of the North-West Passage
by Richard Hakluyt
INTRODUCTION
Thirty-five years ago I made a voyage to the Arctic Seas in what Chaucer calls
A little bote No bigger than a manne's thought;
it was a Phantom Ship that made some voyages to different parts of the world which were recorded in early numbers of Charles Dickens's "Household Words." As preface to Richard Hakluyt's records of the first endeavour of our bold Elizabethan marin ...