The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage Into the South Sea [microform]
The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage Into the South Sea [microform]

Author: Thomas 1593?-1635? James

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2021-09-10

Total Pages: 166

ISBN-13: 9781015161856

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James
The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James

Author: Colleen M. Franklin

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2013-11-01

Total Pages: 360

ISBN-13: 0773589457

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While Thomas James is not widely known today, this was not always the case: his 1633 publication The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James was, until the early nineteenth century, the British public's primary source of information about what we now know as northern Canada. The account of his attempt to find the Northwest Passage and the winter he spent on an island in James Bay made his name synonymous with exploration and the north. Over the centuries James's narrative was used to compile travel books and to compose philosophical treatises, histories, children's books, as well as poetry and novels - most notably, it influenced Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. Colleen Franklin's critical edition of the Voyage is the first since 1894. Her introduction details how James engages with both medieval and early modern perceptions of the north as well as the early modern imperative to base knowledge on observation and experience, and offers a history of the text's reception from its first publication into the nineteenth century. An invaluable reference on the early European exploration of North America, The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James sheds new light on the representation of the Canadian north.

The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage Into the South Sea [microform]
The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage Into the South Sea [microform]

Author: Thomas 1593?-1635? James

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019498019

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Journey to the ends of the earth with Captaine Thomas James. This harrowing account details James' attempt to navigate the treacherous waters of the Northwest Passage, and the incredible hardships he and his crew endured along the way. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

The Dangerous Voyage of Capt. Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of a North West Passage Into the South Sea
The Dangerous Voyage of Capt. Thomas James, in His Intended Discovery of a North West Passage Into the South Sea

Author: Thomas James

Publisher: Gale Ecco, Print Editions

Published: 2018-04-24

Total Pages: 160

ISBN-13: 9781385577325

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Rich in titles on English life and social history, this collection spans the world as it was known to eighteenth-century historians and explorers. Titles include a wealth of travel accounts and diaries, histories of nations from throughout the world, and maps and charts of a world that was still being discovered. Students of the War of American Independence will find fascinating accounts from the British side of conflict. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure edition identification: ++++ British Library T133977 First published in 1633 as 'The strange and dangerous voyage of Captaine Thomas James, in his intended discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea'. Also issued as part of: 'A collection of voyages and travels, in three parts' by Daniel Coxe, [ London: printed in 1633, and now reprinted for O. Payne, 1740. [10],142p., plate: map; 8°

The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England
The Mysterious and the Foreign in Early Modern England

Author: Helen Ostovich

Publisher: Associated University Presse

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 0874139546

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"The essays collected in this volume explore many of the most interesting, and some of the more surprising, reactions of English people in the early modern period to their encounters with the mysterious and the foreign. In this period the small and peripheral nation of English speakers first explored the distant world from the Arctic, to the tropics of the Americas, to the exotic East, and snowy wastes of Russia, recording its impressions and adventures in an equally wide variety of literary genres. Nearer home, fresh encounters with the mysterious world of the Ottoman Empire and the lure of the Holy Land, and, of course, with the evocative wonders of Italy, provide equally rich accounts for the consumption of a reading and theatergoing public. This growing public proved to be, in some cases, naive and gullible, in others urbanely sophisticated in its reactions to "otherness," or frankly incredulous of travelers' tales."--BOOK JACKET.