Thunder Go North : The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake's Fair and Good Bay /
In the summer of 1579 Francis Drake and all those aboard the Golden Hind were in peril. The ship was leaking and they were in search of a protected beach to careen the ship to make repairs. They searched the coast and made landfall in what they called a 'Fair and Good Bay', generally thoug...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2019
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The problem
- The historiography of the vexed question
- Mind the gap
- The beginnings
- Afar the seas were blue and white
- Either here or there
- The great discoveries
- The California juggernaut
- Henry Wagner huffs and puffs and the British blow him down
- The historian on the hill
- Behind the scenes
- The authentication of the plate of brass
- Investigations and resolutions
- The commission and the commemoration of Drake's voyage
- The people at the landing
- An ethnographic assessment for an Oregon landing
- Linguistic analysis
- Thunder and lightning : cosmological correspondences
- Epilogue.