The Third Voyage Of Martin Frobisher To Baffin Island 1578

Author : James McDermott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04
Category : Qikiqtaaluk Region (Nunavut)
ISBN : 1032319313

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The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578 by James McDermott Pdf

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.

Author : James McDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 1472460650

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The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578 by James McDermott Pdf

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.

Author : D. D. Hogarth,P. W. Boreham,J. G. Mitchell
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772824308

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Martin Frobisher's northwest venture, 1576-1581 by D. D. Hogarth,P. W. Boreham,J. G. Mitchell Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas H. B. Symons,Stephen Alsford,Chris Kitzan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772824339

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Meta Incognita: a discourse of discovery - volume 1 by Thomas H. B. Symons,Stephen Alsford,Chris Kitzan Pdf

The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious metals, and to establish a colony in the future Canadian Arctic, it left valuable legacies.

Author : Aled Jones
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2005-05-05
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 0521849950

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Transactions of the Royal Historical Society: Volume 14 by Aled Jones Pdf

The Transactions of the Royal Historical Society publish an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of the world's most distinguished historians.

Author : D. D. Hogarth,Peter W. Boreham,John G. Mitchell,Canadian Museum of Civilization
Publisher : [Hull, Que.] : Canadian Museum of Civilization
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Baffin Island (Nunavut)
ISBN : UIUC:30112123390079

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Martin Frobisher's Northwest Venture, 1576-1581 by D. D. Hogarth,Peter W. Boreham,John G. Mitchell,Canadian Museum of Civilization Pdf

Appraisal of Martin Frobisher's voyages to Baffin Island in 1576, 1577 and 1578 from the viewpoint of his attempt to mine & process gold ore.

Author : Canadian Museum of Civilization,Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee
Publisher : Hull, Quebec : Published by the Canadian Museum of Civilization with the authorization of the Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee
Page : 366 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : History
ISBN : UCSD:31822027797265

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Meta Incognita by Canadian Museum of Civilization,Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee Pdf

The Meta Incognita Project casts new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage or to establish a colony in the Arctic, it left valuable legacies. Research by a team of scholars addresses such subjects as organizational methods, financial speculation, cartography, ship construction, navigational science, metallurgy, health care intercultural relations, even espionage.

Author : Thomas H. B. Symons,Stephen Alsford,Chris Kitzan
Publisher : University of Ottawa Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781772824346

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Meta Incognita: a discourse of discovery - volume 2 by Thomas H. B. Symons,Stephen Alsford,Chris Kitzan Pdf

The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious metals, and to establish a colony in the future Canadian Arctic, it left valuable legacies.

Author : Stephen Alford
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781620408230

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London's Triumph by Stephen Alford Pdf

The dramatic story of the dazzling growth of London in the sixteenth century. For most, England in the sixteenth century was the era of the Tudors, from Henry VII and VIII to Elizabeth I. But as their dramas played out at court, England was being transformed economically by the astonishing discoveries of the New World and of direct sea routes to Asia. At the start of the century, England was hardly involved in the wider world and London remained a gloomy, introverted medieval city. But as the century progressed something extraordinary happened, which placed London at the center of the world stage forever. Stephen Alford's evocative, original new book uses the same skills that made his widely-praised The Watchers so successful, bringing to life the network of merchants, visionaries, crooks, and sailors who changed London and England forever. In a sudden explosion of energy, English ships were suddenly found all over the world--trading with Russia and the Levant, exploring Virginia and the Arctic, and fanning out across the Indian Ocean. The people who made this possible--the families, the guild members, the money-men who were willing to risk huge sums and sometimes their own lives in pursuit of the rare, exotic, and desirable--are as interesting as any of those at court. Their ambitions fueled a new view of the world--initiating a long era of trade and empire, the consequences of which still resonate today.

Author : Michael Householder
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317113225

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Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery by Michael Householder Pdf

Inventing Americans in the Age of Discovery traces the linguistic, rhetorical, and literary innovations that emerged out of the first encounters between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the Americas. Through analysis of six texts, Michael Householder demonstrates the role of language in forming the identities or characters that permitted Europeans (English speakers, primarily) to adapt to the unusual circumstances of encounter. Arranged chronologically, the texts examined include John Mandeville's Travels, Richard Eden's English-language translations of the accounts of Spanish and Portuguese discovery and conquest, George Best's account of Martin Frobisher's voyages to northern Canada, Ralph Lane's account of the abandonment of Roanoke, John Smith's writings about Virginia, and John Underhill's account of the Pequot War. Through his analysis, Householder reveals that English colonists did not share a universal, homogenous view of indigenous Americans as savages, but that the writers, confronted by unfamiliar peoples and situations, resorted to a mixed array of cultural beliefs, myths, and theories to put together workable explanations of their experiences, which then became the basis for how Europeans in the colonies began transforming themselves into Americans.

Author : George Best,Wilberforce Eames
Publisher : London : Argonaut Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1938
Category : Arctic regions
ISBN : UOM:39015003668061

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The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher in Search of a Passage to Cathay and India by the North-west, A.D. 1576-8 by George Best,Wilberforce Eames Pdf

Author : Alan Day
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9780810865198

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Historical Dictionary of the Discovery and Exploration of the Northwest Passage by Alan Day Pdf

The Northwest Passage was repeatedly sought for over four centuries. From the first attempt in the late 15th century to Roald Amundsen's famous voyage of 1903-1906 where the feat was first accomplished to expeditions in the late 1940s by the Mounties to discover an even more northern route, author Alan Day covers all aspects of the ongoing quest that excited the imagination of the world. This compendium of explorers, navigators, and expeditions tackles this broad topic with a convenient, but extensive cross-referenced dictionary. A chronology traces the long succession of treks to find the passage, the introduction helps explain what motivated them, and the bibliography provides a means for those wishing to discover more information on this exciting subject.

Author : Sam White
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674971929

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A Cold Welcome by Sam White Pdf

Cundill History Prize Finalist Longman–History Today Prize Finalist “Meticulous environmental-historical detective work.” —Times Literary Supplement When Europeans first arrived in North America, they faced a cold new world. The average global temperature had dropped to lows unseen in millennia. The effects of this climactic upheaval were stark and unpredictable: blizzards and deep freezes, droughts and famines, winters in which everything froze, even the Rio Grande. A Cold Welcome tells the story of this crucial period, taking us from Europe’s earliest expeditions in unfamiliar landscapes to the perilous first winters in Quebec and Jamestown. As we confront our own uncertain future, it offers a powerful reminder of the unexpected risks of an unpredictable climate. “A remarkable journey through the complex impacts of the Little Ice Age on Colonial North America...This beautifully written, important book leaves us in no doubt that we ignore the chronicle of past climate change at our peril. I found it hard to put down.” —Brian Fagan, author of The Little Ice Age “Deeply researched and exciting...His fresh account of the climatic forces shaping the colonization of North America differs significantly from long-standing interpretations of those early calamities.” —New York Review of Books

Author : Robert McGhee
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780773569508

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Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher by Robert McGhee Pdf

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.

Author : Ignacio Gallup-Díaz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2020-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781351106719

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European Expansion and Representations of Indigenous and African Peoples by Ignacio Gallup-Díaz Pdf

This book presents a bold, multifaceted interpretation of early English imperial actions by examining the ways in which English empire-builders and travelers interacted with Indigenous and African peoples during the long process of colonization in the Americas. Ignacio Gallup-Díaz argues that early English imperial actors were primarily motivated by practical concerns rather than abstract ideologies—from reacting to, learning from, and avoiding the ongoing Spanish and Portuguese imperial projects to the dynamic collision of English imaginings of empire with the practical realities of governing non-European peoples. The text includes an appendix of primary sources that allows students and instructors to engage with English imperial thinking directly. Readers are encouraged to critically examine English accounts of this period in an attempt to see the Indigenous and African peoples who are embedded in them. European Expansion and Representations of Indigenous and African Peoples provides an invaluable new framework for undergraduate students and instructors of early American history, Atlantic history, and the history of race and imperialism more broadly.