Martin Frobisher – Elizabethan Privateer - Softcover

Mcdermott, James

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0300204760 ISBN 13: 9780300204766

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2013

Synopsis

Adventurous and wilful, the swashbuckling Martin Frobisher was both a brave sea-commander who served Elizabeth I with distinction and a privateer who single-mindedly pursued his own interests. This highly entertaining biography provides the first complete picture of the life and exploits of Frobisher - from his voyages in search of the fabled Northwest Passage to his courageous resistance to the Spanish Armada and his exploits as privateer and some-time pirate. The book explores Frobisher's vigorous personality and its manifestation in the turbulence of his career and his impact on others. It also illuminates the robust world of maritime enterprise in England in the sixteenth century, when the shifting objectives of the Elizabethan age brought together felons, merchants, and great officers of state. James McDermott, a leading authority on Martin Frobisher and the northwest passage, offers a riveting account of the explorer, based on all extant manuscript and documentary sources. McDermott sets aside the distortions of Frobisher's popular reputation as a hero and offers instead a richly detailed portrait of a fascinating but flawed man whose ceaseless search for wealth and fame defined his extraordinary life. 'I have read nothing that provides a better sense of the demi-monde in which sea-dogs like Frobisher lived. This is an immensely entertaining biography.' William S. Maltby, University of Missouri-St. Louis. James McDermott is an independent scholar and former special advisor to the Canadian Museum of Civilization's 'Meta Incognita' Project.

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Review:

"I have read nothing that provides a better sense of the demimonde in which sea-dogs like Frobisher lived. This is an immensely entertaining biography." William S. Maltby, University of Missouri"

About the Author:

James McDermott is an independent scholar and former special adviser to the Canadian Museum of Civilization's Meta Incognita Project.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0300204760
• ISBN 13: 9780300204766
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 528