Meta Incognita a discourse of discovery volume 2

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Meta Incognita a discourse of discovery volume 2

Author	: Thomas H. B. Symons
File Size	: 46,5 Mb
Publisher	: University of Ottawa Press
Language	: English
Release Date	: 01 January 1999
ISBN	: 9781772824346
Pages	: 346 pages

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Meta Incognita a discourse of discovery volume 2 by Thomas H. B. Symons Book PDF Summary

The Meta Incognita Project was initiated to cast new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher and their significance for the histories of North America and Britain. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage to mines and precious metals, and to establish a colony in the future Canadian Arctic, it left valuable legacies.

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