Foxe’s Voyages recounts not only his own voyage but gives a brief account, mainly derived from Purchas, of his predecessors.
The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe of Hull, and Captain Thomas James of Bristol, in Search of a North-West Passage, in 1631-32….
Foxe, Luke. Ed. by Miller Cristy. Two volumes. London: Hakluyt Society, 1894.
- 1631-32 British Search Voyage for North West Passage (Captains Luke Foxe and Thomas James of Bristol).
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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The Strange and Dangerovs Voyage of Captaine Thomas Iames, in His Intended Discovery of the Northwest Passage into the South Sea….
James, Thomas. London: Legatt, 1633. [Reprint in Hakluyt Society edition of the Voyages of Luke Foxe and Thomas James. Two volumes. (London: Hakluyt Society, 1894). The James account is in Vol. II, p. 451-611.].
- 1631-32 British Search Voyage for North West Passage (Captains Luke Foxe and Thomas James of Bristol).
- Arctic Reading: Great Britain
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p. 606, in a list of instruments provided for his voyage are a number of books: A Chest full of the best and choicest Mathematicall bookes that could be got for money in England; as likewise Master Hackluite and Master Purchase, and other books of Journals and Histories.