The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher: In Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8 - Brossura

Collinson, Richard

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ISBN 10: 110801075X ISBN 13: 9781108010757

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Riassunto

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This account of Frobisher's voyages in search of the North-West Passage in the sixteenth century was compiled in 1867 from the first edition of Hakluyt's Voyages (1589) with additional manuscript documents. The southern areas of the New World having been claimed by Spain and Portugal, British and Dutch sailors took the lead in exploring the North Atlantic, both in search of profit from the lands first discovered by Cabot in 1500, but also in an effort to find an alternative route to the East.

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The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited early accounts of exploration. This account of Frobisher's voyages in search of the North-West Passage in the sixteenth century is an 1867 compilation from the first edition of Hakluyt's Voyages (1589) and some additional manuscript documents.

Contenuti:

Introduction; Life of Sir Martin Frobisher; State papers previous to the first voyage; The first voyage; State papers subsequent to the first voyage; The second voyage; State papers subsequent to the second voyage; State papers previous to the third voyage; State papers relative to the outfit for the third voyage; The third voyage; Another account of the third voyage, by Edward Sellman; State papers subsequent to the third voyage; Descriptive catalogue of Frobisher relics; Index.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2010
• ISBN 10: 110801075X
• ISBN 13: 9781108010757
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 420