The three voyages of Martin Frobisher: in search of a passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576-8

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 The first series,which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir FrancisDrake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India.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 firstedition of Hakluyt's Voyages (1589) with additional manuscript documents. Thesouthern 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 insearch of profit from the lands first discovered by Cabot in 1500, but also in an effort to find an alternative route to the East. INDICE: 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 catalogueof Frobisher relics; Index.

• ISBN: 978-1-108-01075-7
• Editorial: Cambridge University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 420
• Fecha Publicación: 22/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés