2001 The Third Voyage of Martin Frobisher to Baffin Island 1578

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Illustrated, Publishers' Original Binding, With Dustwrapper

Sir Martin Frobisher (c1535-1594) was an English seaman remembered for his three voyages to the New World, where he landed on Baffin Island, the largest island in Canada, where on his second voyage, he discovered what he believed to be gold ore, which he transported home by sea. He subsequently returned to Baffin Island and dug a number of mines and returned to England with 1,350 tons of the ore, which was found to be worthless hornblende years later.

This work details his third voyage, taken in 1578 to retrieve more ore.

Published by the Hakluyt Society, a publication society founded in 1846, specialising in scholarly editions of records of historic exploration, voyages and geographical primary sources. They produce on average two works a year, with their first series publishing one hundred volumes, the second nearly two hundred, and the third series, as this work is part of, having commenced in 1999 and produced thirty-one volumes so far.

Complete in the original unclipped dust wrapper.

Containing a number of maps and diagrams.