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Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession

The Tragic Legacy of the New World's Least Understood Explorer

By Corey Sandler

Henry Hudson was a ship's captain and an explorer, not a conqueror. He made no claims of ownership. He did not sail north of the Arctic Circle in order to claim these cold, rough places for England or for Holland. And he did not plant the Dutch flag at the deep mouth or the shallow end of the great river that bears his name in what is today New York.

Was Hudson one of the greatest explorers of all time? Was he merely an accidental tourist who stumbled into  history? Or was he the world's worst ship's captain, master of four failed expeditions, enabler or at least three mutinies and of an an atmosphere that led to his own, lonely death?

Now, in a unique mix of historical sleuthing and travel essay, author Corey Sandler tracks down the Henry Hudson that time forgot, giving us a fascinating portrait of a tragic hero in the Age of Discovery . . . and a modern view of some of the most remote and little-changed places on Earth.