Thomas James (sea captain)
- Thomas James (sea captain)
Captain Thomas James (1593 – 1635) was an English sea captain, notable as a navigator and explorer, who set out to discover the Northwest Passage, the hoped for ocean route around the top of North America to Asia.
Capt. James set out on his two-year voyage in 1631 with a single vessel, the "Henrietta Maria". James explored Hudson Bay, of which the southern part of the bay, James Bay, is named for him, having first sited it 1 September 1631. [cite book |title=Ordeal by ice; the search for the Northwest Passage |last=Mowat |first=Farley |authorlink= |coauthors= |year=1973 |publisher=McClelland and Stewart Ltd |location=Toronto |pages=118 |oclc=1391959] He wintered on Charlton Island in present day Nunavut, Canada, before continuing his voyage in the Arctic Ocean in the summer of 1632.
James' harrowing experiences during his voyage, in which he repeatedly came close to death in the ice of the Arctic Ocean, are recounted in his published account of the voyage, "The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James", published in 1633.
Some critics have opined that Samuel Taylor Coleridge's work "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" was inspired by James' experience in the Arctic.
"Some critics think that Coleridge drew upon James’s account of hardship and lamentation in writing The rime of the ancient mariner." [cite web|last=Cooke|first=Alan|title=Thomas James|publisher=Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online|date=2000|url=http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=355|accessdate=2007-03-05]
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External links
* [http://www.archive.org/details/The_Strange_and_Dangerous_Voyage_of_Captaine_Thomas_James Internet Archive .pdf of The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captaine Thomas James, First Edition]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=AmYc9CLnj4EC&dq=strange+and+dangerous+voyage+of+captaine+thomas+james&pg=PA449&ots=vl_Qm5HAca&sig=AEdHqlpXkN-En7pQpywI4bo6cC0&prev=http://www.google.com/search%3Fhl%3Den%26safe%3Doff%26client%3Dfirefox-a%26rls%3Dorg.mozilla%253Aen-US%253Aofficial%26hs%3Drch%26q%3Dstrange%2Band%2Bdangerous%2Bvoyage%2Bof%2Bcaptaine%2Bthomas%2Bjames%26btnG%3DSearch&sa=X&oi=print&ct=result&cd=2 Google Books scan of The Strange and Dangerous Voyage of Captain Thomas James, in "The Voyages of Captain Luke Foxe and Captain Thomas James"]
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