Full name: Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony

Author: Robert Ruby Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780805052145 9780805052152 0805052143 0805052151

Here is the true story of how the first European colony in the New World was lost to history, then found again three hundred years later. England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown but on a mostly frozen, pocket-sized 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 legendary 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, 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. Similar books: Ghosts of Cape Sabine by Leonard F. Guttridge The Arctic Grail by Pierre Berton Journey to the Polar Sea by John Franklin Across the Top of the World by James P. Delgado Icebound by Leonard F. Guttridge Prisoners of the North by Pierre Berton Barrow's Boys by Fergus Fleming Ordeal by Ice by Farley Mowat Fatal Passage by Ken McGoogan The Ice Master by Jennifer Niven Voyages of Delusion by Glyn Williams Frozen in Time by Owen Beattie Dead Wake by Erik Larson The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs One Summer: America, 1927 by Bill Bryson Pathfinders by Felipe Fernandez-Armesto Six Frigates by Ian W. Toll 102 Minutes by Jim Dwyer The History of Jihad by Robert Spencer Karluk by William Laird McKinlay