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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Darby, Melissa (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Drake, Francis, > approximately 1540-1596 > Travel > Northwest Coast of North America.
Northwest Coast of North America > Discovery and exploration > British.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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