Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher : An Elizabethan Adventure.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Preamble -- One: Lodestones, Unicorns, and Perpetual Daylight -- Two: A Passage to Cathay -- Three: Martin Frobisher, Pirate and Explorer -- Four: To Arctic America -- Five: The Five Lost Sailors -- Six: A Token of Possession -- Seven: Ice, Hostages, and Gold -- Eight: Inuit in England -- Nine: Creating a Gold Play -- Ten: The Gold Fleet -- Eleven: The Countess of Warwick's Island -- Twelve: Retreat -- Thirteen: Disgrace -- Fourteen: Kodlunarn Island -- Fifteen: A Final Assay -- Sources and Selected Readings -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- W -- Y -- Z.

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.

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