UMFREVILLE (Edward). &
HEARNE (Samuel) &
Samuel Hernes Resa til Norra Americas Ishaf, famt en obekant Engelsmans Resor Bland Canadas Wildar, utgifne af le Long, Jåmte Edvard Umfrevilles Bestrifning om Hudsons Baye och Dess tilgrånsande Wildar.
First Swedish editions of the explorations of Samuel Hearne and Edward Umfreville to the north and west of Hudson Bay, the original English editions of which were published in 1795 and 1790, respectively, and which represented the latest published data then available. The text also includes extracts from John Long’s Canadian explorations. Hearne was sent by the Hudson’s Bay Company in 1769 to find a northwest passage via Hudson Bay and to explore the country for copper mines which had been reported by the Indians. After two initial failures, Hearne reached the Coppermine River in December of 1770 and followed it to its mouth on the Arctic coast. On his return he discovered Great Slave Lake. Umfreville worked for the Hudson’s Bay Company from 1771 to 1782, when he was captured by La Perouse at Fort York. After his release through an exchange of prisoners, he explored and traded in the region west of Lake Superior, in the employ of the North West Company, until 1788, when he went to New York. A classic of American travel, by “the first white man to gaze on the Arctic or Frozen Ocean from the northern shores of the continent of America”– Lande.
LANDE 1220 (ref). COX II, p.172. BELL H97.
