About this title: Martin Frobisher's third (1578) voyage to Baffin Island was the consequence of flawed logic and excessive optimism on the adventures 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 landscapes which Frobisher and 17 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hakluyt Society, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780904180695ISBN:0904180697
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 4to-over 9"-12" Tall. Blue cloth binding. xi, 268pp. A fine, crisp copy. Dust jacket in protective mylar cover. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Hakluyt Society, London
Date Published: 2001
Description: F/F. 8vo. original blue cloth gilt in dustwrapper (trifling bump to fore-edge); pp. xii (last blank), 268, with 6 illustrations. A fine copy. read more
Description: Poor. McDermott, James, editor. The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island, 1578. London: Hakluyt Society, 2001. Hardcover. dj. As New. Third Series, No. 6. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: The Hakluyt Society, London
Date Published: 2001
Description: 9.75" x 6.75". 268pp., with index. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket. This account of the largest fleet ever to visit Baffin Island in the frenzy of an ultimately false gold rush includes stories of "travails in arctic seas, near comic failuresof navigation, and the back-breaking task of mining" large mnts of ore in the short Arctic summer. The book draws from many sources. With several illustrations after drawings and maps. Hakluyt Society publication Third Series, Number 6. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hakluyt Society
Date Published: 2001-07
ISBN-13:9780904180695ISBN:0904180697
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Description: [0-904180-69-7] 2001, 1st edition., 1st edition. (Hardcover) Very good, no dust jacket. xii, 268pp. Octavo. Illustrated with drawings and maps (including frontispiece). Original blue cloth with gilt decoration on front cover and gilt decoration on spine in dust jacket. read more
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Edition: Reprint.
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Hakluyt Society, London
Date Published: 2001
ISBN-13:9780904180695ISBN:0904180697
Description: New in new dust jacket. xi, 268 p. : ill., maps, 1 port.; 26 cm. Works issued by the Hakluyt Society. Third series, no. 6. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Portraits. Includes bibliographical references and index. read more
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