Description: The dangerous voyage of Capt. Thomas James :

The dangerous voyage of Capt. Thomas James : in his intended discovery of a North West passage into the South Sea : wherein the miseries indured [sic], both going, wintering and returning, and the rarities observ'd ... are related ... : to which is added, a map ...; also divers tables ... of the variation of the compass, &c

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Main Author:	James, Thomas, 1593?-1635?
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London : Printed in 1633, and now reprinted for O. Payne ., 1740.
Edition:	2nd ed. /
Subjects and Genres:	Northwest Passage. Voyages and travels. Pacific Ocean > Discovery and exploration.
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Item Description:	First published under title, "The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames." Cox II, p. 4 lists this 2nd edition, "said to be inferior to the original." Cf. Maggs 465. James was forced by exceptionally bad weather to winter in the southern part of Hudson Bay. His account "contains some remarkable physical observations respecting the intensity of the cold and the accumulation of ice in northern latitudes."--Lowndes. Publ. with "An account of a voyage for the discovery of a North-west passage...By the clerk of the California," London, 1748.
Physical Description:	[10], 142 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 20 cm. (8vo)

Item Description:

First published under title, "The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames." Cox II, p. 4 lists this 2nd edition, "said to be inferior to the original." Cf. Maggs 465.
James was forced by exceptionally bad weather to winter in the southern part of Hudson Bay. His account "contains some remarkable physical observations respecting the intensity of the cold and the accumulation of ice in northern latitudes."--Lowndes.
Publ. with "An account of a voyage for the discovery of a North-west passage...By the clerk of the California," London, 1748.

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[10], 142 p., [1] folded leaf of plates : map ; 20 cm. (8vo)

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