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The Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher : an Elizabethan adventure /
"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 int...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Seattle :
University of Washington Press,
©2001.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 196 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-191) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780773569508 0773569502 9780773531550 0773531556 |