Drawn from Hakluyt’s great collection of English voyages, this selection opens with Sir Humphrey Gilbert’s discourse arguing that a passage to Cathay must exist by the north-west, then gives the eyewitness narratives of Martin Frobisher’s three voyages and the later expeditions of John Davis, with their ice, gold fever and encounters with the Inuit. Henry Morley supplies the introduction.
Primary sources on the Elizabethan Arctic in their own vigorous prose. Download the free EPUB.