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Henry Hudson, dreams and obsession, Corey Sandler

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Henry Hudson

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Corey Sandler

dreams and obsession

Why did Henry Hudson go to sea? -- I: Ice and fire -- The northeast-northwest obsession -- Ashes, ashes, all fall down -- Voyage one: from London to Svalbard and the ice -- A dead end at the top of the world -- Longyearbyen: no-man's-land -- The vikings, the coal company town, and Mary Baker Eddy -- II: to Russia's attic -- Voyage two: unicorns, mermaids, and unrest -- The forbidden city -- III: The third voyage: a u-turn into history -- An English captain on a Dutch ship -- Voyage three: London to New York, via Novaya Zemlya -- Up the Hudson River -- From a teat of the clouds to a flooded Grand Canyon -- The river polluted -- The conscience of the river -- The conscience of the river -- The Half Moon sails again -- Hudson's obscure monuments -- The Hudson through modern eyes -- IV: Direct to the furious overfall and Hudson's dead end -- Voyage four: Hudson sets his own course--one-way to northern Canada -- Prickett's journey: sanitized for his protection -- The end of Hudson's days -- The Discovery comes home -- Into Hudson's Bay by icebreaker -- The man in the middle -- In the land of the Giants -- The disquiet of the Braves -- The company men -- An archaeologist in the bush -- A young man keeps the old traditions -- V: Deciphering the Hudson code -- Hudson's hones, undiscovered