Jens Munk: Navigatio, septentrionalis Det er: Relation Eller Bescriffuelse om Seiglads oc Reyse paa denne Nordvestiske Passagie, som nu kaldis Nova Dania (That is: Relation or Description of Navigation and Journeying in the Northwest Passage which is now called Nova Dania). Copenhagen: Henrich Waldkirch 1624.
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Fol. C3v: Preparations are made for wintering on the west coast of Hudson Bay	Fols. E2v-E3r: The year 1620 begins

Jens Munk (1579-1628) was the leader of an expedition that took off in May 1619 in search of the Northwest Passage to Asia, going round the north of America. The men were forced to winter at Hudson Bay, and 61 out of 64 men succumbed to scurvy. Jens Munk was among the survivors, and after his return he published this account of the strenuous expedition.

18.7 x 14.2 cm.

See also the book On the art of navigating that Jens Munk got hold of from the pirate Mendoza.

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