Hearne, Samuel – What did explorers read?

A Journey from Prince of Wales’s Fort in Hudson’s Bay to the Northern Ocean in the Years 1769, 1770, 1771, and 1772.

Hearne, Samuel. Edited by Richard Glover. (Toronto: Macmillan, 1958.

Hudson's Bay Company.
Arctic Reading: Canada

Preview

Didn’t find much though a fascinating book, especially on the Indian slaughter of Eskimaux. He does mention that there were books in his baggage but never talks in this work about any of them.

Journals of Samuel Hearne and Philip Turnor.

Hearne, Samuel; Turnor, Philip. Edited with Introduction and Notes by J. B. Tyrrell. Toronto: The Chaplain Society, 1934.

Hudson's Bay Company.
Arctic Reading: Canada

Preview

This volume is chiefly about the surveyors recruited to the HBC to chart the immense territory of Prince Rupert’s Land in the latter18th century. The Introduction tells of recruiting them through the good offices of mathematician William Wales of Christ’s Hospital London, who recommended Philip Turnor for one of the surveyor posts.