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Book Synopsis Martin Frobisher by : James McDermott
Download or read book Martin Frobisher written by James McDermott and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the life and exploits of the privateer who served Elizabeth I, battled against the Spanish Armada, and attempted to find the Northwest Passage.
Book Synopsis Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher by : Robert McGhee
Download or read book Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher written by Robert McGhee and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the book: "They were five weeks out of England, driving through a storm on the icy edge of the world, when a sudden blast knocked Gabriel on her side. The helmsman tried frantically to turn the tiny ship into the wind that pinned it down, but the rudder had lifted clear of the surface and took no purchase. Water poured over the side, roaring into hatches as the wind drove the vessel across the waves and the crew clung frozen in despair. Only the captain acted, scrambling along the almost-horizontal upper sides, casting off lines to spill wind from the sails, forcing the crew into action to cut away the mizzenmast and the broken foreyard, then preventing them from doing the same to the mainmast. Finally Gabriel rose sluggishly, heavy with seawater but steering slowly off the wind. A tangle of broken rigging and sodden sails, she wallowed before the storm through the remainder of the day and all of the following night, while the captain restored order and set men to pumping the ship dry." Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, Gabriel's captain B privateer and adventurer Martin Frobisher B took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. A few days after enduring the storm of 14 July 1576, Frobisher sighted the most easterly outlier of Arctic North America and for the first time England became aware of this vast northern region. Over the next three summers it would be the scene of an adventure involving the fruitless search for a northwest passage, the first attempt by the British to establish a settlement in the New World, and the first major gold-mining fraud in North American history. Over 1,200 tons of rock were mined from Baffin Island and shipped to England, where they were found to contain not an ounce of gold. Yet Frobisher's claim of possession established British interest in northern North America and was the first step in the eventual establishment of British sovereignty over the northern half of the American continent. 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 venture. The story ends on an ironic note B the capital of the new Territory of Nunavut, which restores to the Inuit a measure of the sovereignty claimed for England by Frobisher, lies at the head of the bay named after him, where over four centuries ago the English first ventured into Arctic America.
Book Synopsis The Mystique of the Northwest Passage by : Bożenna Chylińska
Download or read book The Mystique of the Northwest Passage written by Bożenna Chylińska and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-01-14 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book highlights the 16th-century English-Atlantic connections based on the world division defined by two fundamental documents of the late 15th century: namely, the papal bull Inter Caetera, and the Portuguese-Spanish Treaty of Tordesillas. Despite this, an imaginary Northwest Passage to the wealth and markets of the Far East captured the attention of Elizabethan merchants and navigators searching for an alternative sea route to Asia to challenge the Portuguese and Spanish commerce monopoly. The core of the book is Sir Martin Frobisher’s three Arctic voyages of 1576–78, intended to connect the Protestant focus on wealth acquisition with the territorial expansion. Although Frobisher’s venture lacked opportunities for advancement, he marked his place in history by creating a fascination for the mythical Northwest Passage and an interest in North America. The book is based on the eyewitness accounts of the expeditions’ captains, and will appeal to a large audience, from teachers and students in the general humanities to those specifically interested in language, literature, and trans-Atlantic and Renaissance studies.
Book Synopsis The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher by : George Best
Download or read book The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher written by George Best and published by London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society. This book was released on 1867 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Martin Frobisher by : Taliesin Trow
Download or read book Sir Martin Frobisher written by Taliesin Trow and published by Casemate Publishers. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Martin Frobisher was one of the great sea dogs of Elizabethan England. He was a pirate and a privateer - he looted countless ships and was incarcerated by the Portuguese as a young man - and he aided Sir Francis Drake in one of his most daring voyages to attack the Spanish in the West Indies. But Frobisher was also a warrior who was knighted for his services against the Spanish Armada, and he was an explorer. He was the first Englishman to attempt to find the fabled Northwest Passage to Cathay to China. He commanded three voyages into the uncharted northern wastes Canada and Greenland and devoted eighteen years of his life to this dream. Taliesin Trows new biographical study of this many-sided Elizabethan adventurer should revive interest in him and in this extraordinary period in English seafaring history. For Frobisher was a fascinating, enigmatic character whose reputation is often eclipsed by those of his remarkable contemporaries, Drake, Hawkins and Ralegh.
Book Synopsis Martin Frobisher's northwest venture, 1576-1581 by : D. D. Hogarth
Download or read book Martin Frobisher's northwest venture, 1576-1581 written by D. D. Hogarth and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Martin Frobisher led three voyages to the Canadian Arctic between 1576 and 1578. He initially sought the Northwest Passage to Cathay, but his voyages became Canada’s first “gold rush” when gold was reported after his first trip. Sadly the Arctic ore proved worthless, and the Cathay Company that financed the expedition was ruined. Mysteries, however, remain. Was the ore truly worthless? If so, why was it so easy to finance the expeditions? Was fraud involved? And why did some of the ore mysteriously disappear off the coast of Ireland? This book is a quest for the answers.
Book Synopsis The life of sir Martin Frobisher by : Frank Jones (vicar of St. Paul, Forest Hill.)
Download or read book The life of sir Martin Frobisher written by Frank Jones (vicar of St. Paul, Forest Hill.) and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8 by : Richard Collinson
Download or read book The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8 written by Richard Collinson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In addition to the main text, this also has Edward Sellman's account of the third voyage, and a list of artefacts from Frobisher encampments, etc, found by C. F. Hall and deposited with the Royal Geographical Society. The additional documents relate to numerous aspects of the financing and fitting out of the expedition. According to the British Museum date stamp, despite the stated publication date, actual publication did not occur until 1869. The supplementary material includes the 1867 annual report. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1867.
Book Synopsis The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8 by : George Best
Download or read book The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher, in Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8 written by George Best and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578 by : James McDermott
Download or read book The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578 written by James McDermott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 if many refused to be swayed by the promise of an empire to rival that of Spain, others, including the Queen herself and many of her Privy Councillors, allowed their cupidity to override all caution. Supplemented by extremely detailed and opprobrious (though substantially accurate) accusations regarding Frobisher's role in this enterprise by his ex-partner, the merchant Michael Lok, these records provide a graphic, poignant and often humorous picture of a voyage which foreshadowed the glorious failures of a later age of English empire-building.
Book Synopsis The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher by : William McFee
Download or read book The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher written by William McFee and published by New York : Harper. This book was released on 1928 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Endpapers are reproductions of early maps - the Zero map and America Settentionale.
Book Synopsis Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent by : Richard Hakluyt
Download or read book Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent written by Richard Hakluyt and published by . This book was released on 1850 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Martin Frobisher by : William McFee
Download or read book Sir Martin Frobisher written by William McFee and published by London : J. Lane. This book was released on 1934 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Frobisher & Fuerst's Microbiology in Health & Disease by : Martin Frobisher
Download or read book Frobisher & Fuerst's Microbiology in Health & Disease written by Martin Frobisher and published by W.B. Saunders Company. This book was released on 1983 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Martin Frobisher's Search for the Northwest Passage by : Ottilie Gertrude Boetzkes
Download or read book Sir Martin Frobisher's Search for the Northwest Passage written by Ottilie Gertrude Boetzkes and published by New York : Exposition Press. This book was released on 1964 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher by : Martin Frobisher
Download or read book The Life of Sir Martin Frobisher written by Martin Frobisher and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-19 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Book Synopsis The Yorkshire Coiners, 1767-1783 by : Henry Ling Roth
Download or read book The Yorkshire Coiners, 1767-1783 written by Henry Ling Roth and published by Halifax, England : F. King & Sons, Limited. This book was released on 1906 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
