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The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578
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The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578 Hardcover - 2001

by James McDermott (Editor)


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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. As the likelihood of future profits was downgraded in successive assays of the mineral samples, the adventurers accepted that a much larger expedition would be required to extract sufficient ore to provide an adequate return upon monies already spent. The result - a fleet of fifteen ships, crewed by almost five hundred men - remains the largest fleet ever to have visited Baffin Island. Their travails in arctic seas, near-comic failures of navigation and the backbreaking task of mining the largest possible amount of mineral ore in the time allowed by the brief arctic summer, were recorded in an unsurpassed body of eyewitness reports, all of which, for the first time, have been assembled in a single volume. 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.

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  • Title The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578
  • Author James McDermott (Editor)
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 280
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Routledge, London
  • Date 2001
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780904180695 / 0904180697
  • Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.75 x 6.85 x 0.75 in (24.77 x 17.40 x 1.91 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Western U.S.
  • Library of Congress subjects Frobisher, Martin - Travel - Nunavut -, Baffin Island (Nunavut) - Discovery and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002265259
  • Dewey Decimal Code 917.952

About the author

James McDermott is an independent scholar whose (1984) M.Phil thesis provided an analysis of the economic structure and organisation of the Frobisher voyages utilising the voluminous account books of Michael Lok. He is a former special adviser to the Archival Research Task Force (ARTAF), the UK arm of the Canadian Museum of Civilisation's Meta Incognita Project, and a contributor to Meta Incognita: A Discourse of Discovery; Martin Frobisher's Arctic Expeditions 1576-1578, et. T.H.B. Symons (2 vols, Hull, Canada 1999). He is the author of Martin Frobisher, Elizabethan Privateer (Yale University Press, 2001)
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