Thunder go North : the hunt for Drake's fair and good bay / Melissa Darby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Darby, Melissa, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--British.

Northwest Coast of North America.

Drake, Francis, approximately 1540-1596--Travel--Northwest Coast of North America.

Drake, Francis.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (236 pages)

Place of Publication:

Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 2019.

Summary:

"This manuscript is a fresh look at determining the location of the 1579 landing site of Sir Francis Drake on the northwest coast of North America to repair his ship, the Golden Hind. This landing location has long been debated and was claimed by California, especially with the finding of the brass plate thought to be an artifact of Drake's landing located on a hill overlooking San Francisco Bay. Although the brass plate was supposedly authenticated in 1938, by 1977 it was proven to be a hoax, yet no re-examination of the landing question or associated data was completed"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

The problem

The historiography of the vexed question

Mind the gap

The beginnings

Afar the seas were blue and white

Either here or there

The great discoveries

The California juggernaut

Henry Wagner huffs and puffs and the British blow him down

The historian on the hill

Behind the scenes

The authentication of the plate of brass

Investigations and resolutions

The commission and the commemoration of Drake's voyage

The people at the landing

An ethnographic assessment for an Oregon landing

Linguistic analysis

Thunder and lightning : cosmological correspondences

Epilogue.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-60781-726-8