The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher: An Elizabethan Adventure Tapa dura - 2001

Seattle, Washington, U.S.A.: Univ of Washington Press, 2001. a solid copy; ---------- SATISFACTION GUARANTEED --------- FAST, COURTEOUS SERVICE ------ ALL DUSTJACKETS ARE COVERED WITH NEW CLEAR MYLAR PROTECTOR ----- (5/5/20- 806 ). First Edition. Blue Cloth. Fine/Fine. Illus. by Illustrated Throughout. 9 x 8".

Seattle ; London : University Of Washington Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardback. "They were on the icy edge of the world when a sudden blast knocked the Gabriel on her side. The helmsman tried frantically to turn the tiny ship, but the rudder had lifted clear of the surface and took no purchase. Water poured over the side as the wind drove the vessel across the waves and the crew clung frozen in despair ..."" Under orders from Queen Elizabeth I, privateer and adventurer Martin Frobisher took up the search for a northwestern route to Asia. On 14 July 1576 Frobisher sighted the most easternly tip of Arctic North America. Over the next three summers the area 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. Using first-hand accounts, Inuit oral histories, and archaeological information from Baffin Island, Robert McGhee… Leer más

Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001. hardcover. fine/fine. Illustrated with b/w and color images. 196 pages. Slim oblong 8vo, blue cloth, d.w. Seattle: University of Washington Press/Canadian Museum of Civilization, (2001). Fine in fine dust wrapper.<br/> <br/>

Seattle ; London : University Of Washington Press, 2001. First Edition. Hardback. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. ; 196 pages; Physical desc. : ix, 196 p. : ill. (some col. ) : maps (some col. ) , col. Ports ; 22 x 24 cm. Subject: Gold mines and mining - Nunavut - Baffin Island - History - 16th century. Northwest Passage - Discovery and exploration - English.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Univ of Washington Pr, 2001-12-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!