| Description |
1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Contents |
Lodestones, Unicorns, and Perpetual Daylight -- A Passage to Cathay -- Martin Frobisher, Pirate and Explorer -- To Arctic America -- The Five Lost Sailors -- A Token of Possession -- Ice, Hostages, and Gold -- Inuit in England -- Creating a Gold Play -- The Gold Fleet -- The Countess of Warwick's Island -- Retreat -- Disgrace -- Kodlunarn Island -- A Final Assay |
| Summary |
"Using reports from the men who participated in the venture, details preserved in the oral histories of the Inuit, and archaeological information recovered from the sites of Elizabethan activities on Baffin Island, Robert McGhee describes Frobisher's expeditions and offers new insights into this audacious undertaking. How could Martin Frobisher have convinced himself that a narrow bay on the coast of Baffin Island was a northwest passage to the Pacific? What became of the five members of his company who went ashore and were never seen again? What role, if any, did Frobisher play in the gold-mining fraud? Some of these questions may never be answered but, despite apparent failure, Martin Frobisher's ventures launched England's long period of intense exploration and discovery in this land."--Jacket |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594 -- Travel -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island
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| SUBJECT |
Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594. fast (OCoLC)fst01819439 |
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Frobisher, Martin. swd |
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Gold mines and mining -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island -- History -- 16th century
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Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
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Gold ores -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island -- History
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical.
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HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
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HISTORY -- Expeditions & Discoveries.
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Gold ores.
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Discoveries in geography -- English.
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Explorers.
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Gold mines and mining.
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Travel.
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Entdeckungsreise
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Geschichte
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Baffin Island (Nunavut) -- Discovery and exploration -- English
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Northwest Passage -- Discovery and exploration -- English
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Arctic Ocean -- Northwest Passage.
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Great Britain.
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Nunavut -- Baffin Island.
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Arktis
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| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2001043089 |
| ISBN |
9780773569508 |
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0773569502 |
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9780773531550 |
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0773531556 |
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