Details the life and exploits of the privateer who served Elizabeth I, battled against the Spanish Armada, and attempted to find the Northwest Passage.

Endpapers are reproductions of early maps - the Zero map and America Settentionale.

The book highlights the 16th-century English-Atlantic connections based on the world division defined by two fundamental documents of the late 15th century: nam

Sir Martin Frobisher was one of the great sea dogs of Elizabethan England. He was a pirate and a privateer - he looted countless ships and was incarcerated by t