The Three Voyages of Martin Frobisher
In Search of a Passage to Cathaia and India by the North-West, A.D. 1576–8

This volume (1867) contains an account of Frobisher's voyages in search of the North-West Passage in the sixteenth century.

Richard Collinson (Author)

9781108010757, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 April 2010

420 pages, 1 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2.4 cm, 0.53 kg

The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. This account of Frobisher's voyages in search of the North-West Passage in the sixteenth century was compiled in 1867 from the first edition of Hakluyt's Voyages (1589) with additional manuscript documents. The southern areas of the New World having been claimed by Spain and Portugal, British and Dutch sailors took the lead in exploring the North Atlantic, both in search of profit from the lands first discovered by Cabot in 1500, but also in an effort to find an alternative route to the East.

Introduction
Life of Sir Martin Frobisher
State papers previous to the first voyage
The first voyage
State papers subsequent to the first voyage
The second voyage
State papers subsequent to the second voyage
State papers previous to the third voyage
State papers relative to the outfit for the third voyage
The third voyage
Another account of the third voyage, by Edward Sellman
State papers subsequent to the third voyage
Descriptive catalogue of Frobisher relics
Index.

Subject Areas: Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700 [HBLH]