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1 online resource (xi, 268 pages) : illustrations, maps, 1 portrait |
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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Third series, vol. 1 ; 3rd ser., no. 6 |
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Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Third series, vol. 1 ; 3rd ser., no. 6
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations and Maps; Notes on Sources; Notes on Presentation; Introduction; 1. Background to the 1578 Voyage; 2. Preparations for the 1578 Voyage; 3. The 1578 Voyage; 4. The Aftermath of the Voyage; 5. The Legacy of the 1578 Voyage; Documents; I List of Adventurers; II Instructions; III Prayer for Voyagers; IV Edward Fenton's provisional list for the 1578 Colony; V Michael Lock's testimony; VI Christopher Hall's ship's log; VII Fragmentary journal of the ship Judith; VIII Edward Fenton's log for the ship Judith; IX Edward Selman's 'official' account of the voyage |
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X Thomas Ellis: A true reporte of the third and last voyage into Meta IncognitaXI George Best's True Discourse; XII Thomas Wiars's Relation; XIII Correspondence of Don Bernadino de Mendoza to Philip II, 15 November 1578; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Martin Frobisher's third (1578) voyage to Baffin island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism on the part of the adventurers of the ephemeral 'Company of Cathay'. Their original intention - to find a north-western route to the Far East - had been largely forgotten following the imagined discovery of gold - and silver-bearing ore in Meta Incognita (the Unknown Limits), as Elizabeth I had named the forbidding and icy landscape which Frobisher and seventeen mariners had first sighted two years earlier. This was to be the English nation's first experience of a 'gold-rush', and |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-259) and index |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594 -- Travel -- Nunavut -- Baffin Island
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Frobisher, Martin, Sir, approximately 1535-1594 fast |
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Frobisher, Martin, (1535?-1594) ram |
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Frobisher, Martin. swd |
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TRAVEL -- United States -- West -- Pacific (AK, CA, HI, NV, OR, WA)
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Travel
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Expedition
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Baffin Island (Nunavut) -- Description and travel
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Nunavut -- Baffin Island
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Baffinland
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Nunavut (Canada) -- Descriptions et voyages.
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Baffin, Terre de (Canada) -- Découverte et exploration britanniques -- 16e siècle.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
McDermott, James, 1956-
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Hakluyt Society.
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| ISBN |
9781472460653 |
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1472460650 |
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