Author: CLEMENTS B. MARKHAM, C.B., F.R.S.
Title: A Life Of John Davis, The Navigator, 1550 - 1605, discoverer of Davis Strait. (The Worldss Great Explorers And Explorations)
Description: London, George Philip & Son. 1891, Second Edition. Green Cloth, 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. Book, 301, 4, [4] pages, frontispiece, b/w plates, folding coloured maps, text illustrations. Ex-library copy in a green buckram binding. John Davis (c.?1550 - 1605) was one of the chief navigators of Queen Elizabeth I of England. He led several voyages to discover the Northwest Passage and served as pilot and captain on both Dutch and English voyages to the East Indies. He discovered the Falkland Islands in August 1592. Good.

Keywords: Arctic, William Baffin, John Cabot, Thomas Cavendish, Dartmouth, Sir Francis Drake, Greenland, Henry Hudson, Labrador, Magellan Strait, Navigation, Sir Walter Raleigh,


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