Founded Upon the Seas
A Narrative of Some English Maritime and Overseas Enterprises During the Period 1550 to 1616

A clear and concise historical account of Elizabethan and Stuart maritime achievements and the personalities of leading contemporary explorers.

Walter Oakeshott (Author)

9781108013420, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 2 September 2010

242 pages, 12 b/w illus. 1 map
21.6 x 14 x 1.4 cm, 0.31 kg

Sir Walter Oakeshott was a British scholar who is best known as the discoverer of the Winchester Manuscript of Malory's Morte d'Arthur while he was an assistant master at Winchester College. He later became Rector of Lincoln College, and Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 1962 to 1964. Oakeshott had a scholarly interest in Elizabethan exploration, which he examines in this volume, first published in 1942. He describes the military and exploratory achievements of the Elizabethan and Stuart navy, including attempts to find the Northwest Passage, the settlement of Virginia and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Oakeshott also discusses the role of Renaissance thought and contemporary politics in these achievements, through changes in naval tactics and advances in cartography. The personalities of leading explorers including Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins and Sir Walter Raleigh are also vividly described in this clear and concise historical account.

Preface
1. New worlds for old
2. North-East Passage
3. John Hawkins in the West Indies
4. King Philip, John Hawkins, and the Scottish matter
5. Drake in the Caribbean and Pacific
6. The West Indian expedition of 1585 and the expedition to Cadiz
7. Virginia: the planners and pioneers
8. The Armada and after
9. The last Elizabethan and the first American
Notes
Index.

Subject Areas: British & Irish history [HBJD1]