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Henry Hudson Dreams and Obsession: The Tragic Legacy of the New World's Least Understood Explorer Kindle Edition
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Was he the world's worst ship's captain, master of four failed expeditions, enabler of at least three mutinies, which ultimately led to his own death at the hands of his crew?
Was he secretly spying for the British while sailing for the Dutch?
In a fascinating mixture of history, travel essay, and politics, Corey Sandler tracks down the Henry Hudson that time has forgotten.
Using Hudson's journals and logbooks as his guidebook, Sandler retraced all four of the captain's known voyages: to the top of the world near the North Pole, to Virginia and New York, and ulitmately deep into the wilderness of the Canadian subarctic.
Updated in 2014 for the Kindle, including a selection of photographs.
Bestselling author Corey Sandler has been a storyteller all his life. He began as a reporter for a small-town daily newspaper and went on to cover two national presidential campaigns and become a newsman for The Associated Press.
He has written more than 150 books on history, sports, travel, computers, and business; several of his titles have become national bestsellers. He has appeared as a guest on NBC’s “Today” show, CNN, National Public Radio, and The Travel Channel.
For the past decade, Sandler has also traveled the world as a destination and special interest lecturer for a luxury cruise line. He has passed the century mark on countries visited, with no intention of retiring his passport.
An accomplished photographer, Sandler illustrates his books and lectures with pictures taken in some of the most famous and most obscure places on earth.
- LanguageEnglish
- Publication dateFebruary 5, 2014
- File size5902 KB
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- ASIN : B00IA9QTBM
- Publisher : Word Association / Corey Sandler; 2nd edition (February 5, 2014)
- Publication date : February 5, 2014
- Language : English
- File size : 5902 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 309 pages
- Lending : Enabled
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,402,079 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
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About the author

Bestselling author Corey Sandler has been a storyteller all his life. He began as a reporter for a small-town daily newspaper and went on to cover two national Presidential campaigns and become a correspondent for The Associated Press.
He has written more than 300 books on history, sports, travel, computers, and business; several of his titles have become national bestsellers. He has appeared as a guest on NBC’s “Today” show, CNN, National Public Radio, and The Travel Channel.
Earlier in his career, his experience as a reporter for Gannett Newspapers and The Associated Press included covering four national political conventions. He moved on from daily journalism to become one of the pioneers of computer magazine publishing and books, serving as the first Executive Editor of "PC Magazine".
His fascination with the mystery of explorer Henry Hudson took him on a year-long, 25,000-mile journey to England, the North Pole, and deep into Canadian wilderness areas accessible only by boat or bush plane. "Henry Hudson Dreams and Obsession" retraces the four known voyages of the Age of Exploration's least-known adventurer to Norway and the frozen ice barrier of the North Pole, his exploration of the Hudson River and his final trip into northern Canada where he was set adrift by his crew to die.
“Henry Hudson: Dreams and Obsession” was published in a second edition for the Amazon Kindle in 2014.
“Watching Baseball”, written with former Boston Red Sox star and current broadcaster Jerry Remy became a runaway bestseller in 2004, the year the Red Sox finally broke the Curse of the Bambino and won the World Series.
He has also written books for consumers about computers and tablets, and owned and authored a travel guidebook series.
For the past decade, he has traveled the world as a speaker aboard cruise ships, giving talks about history, music, art, culture, and travel. He has lectured in the Baltic, Mediterranean, Aegean, North Africa, far northern Norway and the Arctic, Central and South America, the Caribbean, the North Atlantic, and the Canadian Maritimes.
A dedicated world traveler, Sandler has an eye for unusual connections between people, places, and events. An accomplished photographer, he illustrates his lectures with pictures taken in some of the most famous and most obscure places on earth.
His website, which includes a blog and photo gallery, is:
www.coreysandler.com
You can send reach him by email through the Contact page on his website, www.coreysandler.com
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Ok now that's out of the way let me explain a bit why this book is excellent.
First of all its one-third history, one-third travelogue and one-third PSA for keeping all the places Henry Hudson visited clean. The history part is fairly typical in that we don't know much about Hudson; he may have been a bad captain nothing that new or exciting. But overall it's still interesting and a good introduction for those unfamiliar with Hudson.
Then comes the travelogue sections. These are really interesting mostly because of all the unique people the author met on his travels. In reading the book the former director of Clearwater, Andy Mele, comes off as a pretty genuine guy. He's not a crazy tree hugging hippe but just a regular guy that wants to do some good. Most of the environmentalist people come off this way. Some people may not like this but honestly try spending a night near the Hudson...smell that? Yeah, that's the river. I did enjoy Sandle's search for Hudson's monuments and as he mentions in the introduction the most obvious ones are the Hudson River and New York City.
The best parts are the sections that are basically the PSAs about environmentalism. There are numerous digs at GE for dumping PCBs and our society in general. Having lived for four years about 100 yards from the Hudson I must say it's easily one of the greatest sights in the world. But its also one of the biggest dumps too. I think it's terrible that the river is so polluted that you can't go for a swim or eat a fish from there. I had a picnic with my girlfriend one day in Hyde Park right on the river and it was pretty easy to spot all the trash washed up on the shore. Ok enough gushing as Sandler does a much better job explaining this then I do.
In conclusion just read the book. It's excellent.
There's not a whole lot that's known about Hudson. What there is comes from a few brief surviving documents. You get the text from those documents word-for-word with little if any interpretation from the author. That's the real disappointment of this book. If I wanted to read the text of the original documents I'd look them up myself online. What I wanted was expert interpretation and the telling of the story that these documents seem to describe.
Sandler writes from Nantucket, an island he shares with the great historian Nathaniel Philbrick. But where Philbrick excels at taking scant information and turning it into a fascinating story, Sandler dumps the source information on the page and then rambles on about his own experiences in visiting the same places 400 years later. Unfortunately, it's just not very interesting. Thought you'd learn about Hudson's trip up the river that bears his name? You're going to get a little of that and then a whole lot of information on General Electric, PCBs, the environmental movement, and Pete Seeger.
An earlier reviewer characterized this book as being 1/3 history. I'd put it more at 1/10th. By the end of the book you'll know little about Hudson, but all about Sandler's political views, summer camp experiences, family, feelings, travel preferences, and a whole lot of other personal detail. If that's what you're looking to read about, you'll love it. But if you read the title and thought you were instead going to read a biography of Henry Hudson, you'll be disappointed.