Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher write by Robert McGhee. This book was released on 2001-11-01. Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The Mystique of the Northwest Passage
The Mystique of the Northwest Passage - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mystique of the Northwest Passage write by Bożenna Chylińska. This book was released on 2019-01-14. The Mystique of the Northwest Passage available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent
Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent write by Richard Hakluyt. This book was released on 1850. Divers Voyages Touching the Discovery of America and the Islands Adjacent available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Arctic Labyrinth
Arctic Labyrinth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arctic Labyrinth write by Glyn Williams. This book was released on 2010-03. Arctic Labyrinth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The elusive dream of locating the Northwest Passage--an ocean route over the top of North America that promised a shortcut to the fabulous wealth of Asia--obsessed explorers for centuries. Until recently these channels were hopelessly choked by impassible ice. Voyagers faced unimaginable horrors--entire ships crushed, mass starvation, disabling frostbite, even cannibalism--in pursuit of a futile goal. Glyn Williams charts the entire sweep of this extraordinary history, from the tiny, woefully equipped vessels of the first Tudor expeditions to the twentieth-century ventures that finally opened the Passage.
Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux
Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux write by Charles Francis Hall. This book was released on 1865. Arctic Researches, and Life Among the Esquimaux available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
