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Henry Hudson ( c. 1565 – disappeared 23 June 1611) was an English sea explorer and navigator during the early 17th century, best known for his explorations of present-day Canada and parts of the Northeastern United States. In 1607 and 1608, Hudson made two attempts on behalf of English merchants to find a rumoured Northeast Passage to Cathay ...
Abacuk Pricket. Abacuk Pricket was the navigator of the Discovery on the fourth voyage of captain Henry Hudson. He was one of the mutineers who set Hudson adrift in a small boat, and then returned to England, eventually being one of only eight sailors who made it back to England alive. He was tried in 1618, but the authorities did not want to ...
1881. Medium. Oil on canvas. Dimensions. 214 cm × 183.5 cm (84 in × 72.2 in) Location. Tate Britain, London. The Last Voyage of Henry Hudson is an oil-on-canvas painting by English artist John Collier, created in 1881. It is part of the Tate Britain collections since 1881.
The ship was captained by Henry Hudson, an Englishman in the service of the Dutch Republic. In 1909, the Kingdom of the Netherlands presented the United States with a replica of Halve Maen to commemorate the 300th anniversary of Hudson's voyage; the replica was destroyed in a fire in 1934. Over fifty years later, in 1989, the New Netherland ...
A Crystal Age. A Crystal Age is a utopian novel / Dystopia written by W. H. Hudson, first published in 1887. [1] The book has been called a "significant S-F milestone" [2] and has been noted for its anticipation of the "modern ecological mysticism" that would evolve a century later. [3]
PR6015.U23 G7 1989. Green Mansions: A Romance of the Tropical Forest (1904) is an exotic romance by William Henry Hudson about a traveller to the Guyana jungle of southeastern Venezuela and his encounter with a forest-dwelling girl named Rima. [1] The principal characters are Abel, Rima, Nuflo, Cla-Cla and Kua-kó.
William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922), known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist. Life [ edit ] Hudson was the son of Daniel Hudson and his wife Catherine ( née Kemble ), United States' settlers of English and Irish origin.
Rosa 'Henry Hudson' is a white blend Hybrid rugosa cultivar, bred by Canadian rose breeder, Felicitas Svejda in 1966. It was introduced in Canada in 1979 by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada . It is one of the Canadian Explorer roses that Svejda developed and named in honour of legendary Canadian explorers.