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RUBY, ROBERT - Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony
New York: Henry Holt and Co, 2001. First Edition; First Printing. Hardcover. ISBN: 0805052151. A near-fine volume in a near-fine DJ, dustjacket in Mylar, unclipped. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 320 pages; "England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown, but on a mostly frozen small island in the Canadian Arctic. Queen Elizabeth I called that place Meta Incognita -- the Unknown Shore. Backed by Elizabeth I and her key advisors, including the legary spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham and the shadowy Dr. John Dee, the erstwhile pirate Sir Martin Frobisher set out three times across the North Atlantic, in the process leading what is still the largest Arctic expedition in history. In this brilliantly conceived dual narrative, Robert Ruby interweaves Frobisher's saga with that of the nineteenth-century American Charles Francis Hall, whose explorations of this same landscape enabled him to hear the oral history of the Inuit, passed down through generations. It was these stories that unlocked the mystery of Frobisher's lost colony.". Near Fine in Near Fine dust jacket .
USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 2568] Booknumber: 21227
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USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 2568] Booknumber: 21227
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Total: USD 16.50 [Appr.: EURO 15.5 | £UK 13.25 | JP¥ 2568]
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