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Thunder Go North - Melissa Darby

Thunder Go North

The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake's Fair and Good Bay

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
336 Seiten
2021
University of Utah Press,U.S. (Verlag)
978-1-60781-744-4 (ISBN)
CHF 34,90 inkl. MwSt
In the summer of 1579 Francis Drake and those aboard the Golden Hind were in peril. The ship was leaking and they needed a protected beach. They made landfall in what they called a ‘Fair and Good Bay’, thought to be in California. This book unravels the mysteries surrounding Drake’s voyage and summer sojourn in this bay.
In the summer of 1579 Francis Drake and all those aboard the Golden Hind were in peril. The ship was leaking and they were in search of a protected beach to careen the ship to make repairs. They searched the coast and made landfall in what they called a 'Fair and Good Bay', generally thought to be in California. They stacked the treasure they had recently captured from the Spanish onto on this sandy shore, repaired the ship, explored the country, and after a number of weeks they set sail for home. When they returned to England, they became the second expedition to circumnavigate the earth, after Magellan's voyage in 1522, and the first to return with its commander.

Thunder Go North unravels the mysteries surrounding Drake’s famous voyage and summer sojourn in this bay. Comparing Drake's observations of the Natives' houses, dress, foods, language, and lifeways with ethnographic material collected by early anthropologists, Melissa Darby makes a compelling case that Drake and his crew landed not in California but on the Oregon coast. She also uncovers the details of how an early twentieth-century hoax succeeded in maintaining the California landing theory and silencing contrary evidence. Presented here in an engaging narrative, Darby's research beckons for history to be rewritten.
Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort Salt Lake City
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 431 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-60781-744-6 / 1607817446
ISBN-13 978-1-60781-744-4 / 9781607817444
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