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Thunder Go North : The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake's… California History Marin
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Book Title
- Thunder Go North
- Signed
- No
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Illustrated
- Genre
- History
- Original Language
- English
- Topic
- Historic Figures, California History
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Unit Quantity
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN
- 9781607817253
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
University of Utah Press
ISBN-10
160781725X
ISBN-13
9781607817253
eBay Product ID (ePID)
5038830645
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Publication Name
Thunder Go North : the Hunt for Sir Francis Drake's Fair and Good Bay
Language
English
Publication Year
2019
Subject
Adventurers & Explorers, United States / State & Local / Pacific Northwest (Or, Wa), Anthropology / General
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
20 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2019-008129
Reviews
"Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Thunder Go North embarks on a fresh investigation into a centuries-old 'vexed question': Where was Francis Drake's 1579 landing place on North America's Pacific Coast? Using anthropological as well as historical evidence, author Melissa Darby presents a compelling case that Drake most likely came ashore on the central coast of Oregon--far to the north of Drake's Bay, near San Francisco, the allegedly 'long-settled' answer to that question. She tells an exceedingly complicated but fascinating story, and tells it well. Darby's conclusions cannot be ignored by Drake scholars or others hoping to unlock this nearly 450-years-old puzzle. In addition, Thunder Go North reveals the incredibly tangled web of intrigue, duplicity, and hoax that has bedeviled past historians' efforts to answer the 'Where did Drake land?' question." -Jeff LaLande, historian and archaeologist, "Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Thunder Go North embarks on a fresh investigation into a centuries-old 'vexed question': Where was Francis Drake's 1579 landing place on North America's Pacific Coast? Using anthropological as well as historical evidence, author Melissa Darby presents a compelling case that Drake most likely came ashore on the central coast of Oregon--far to the north of Drake's Bay, near San Francisco, the allegedly 'long-settled' answer to that question. She tells an exceedingly complicated but fascinating story, and tells it well. Darby's conclusions cannot be ignored by Drake scholars or others hoping to unlock this nearly 450-years-old puzzle. In addition, Thunder Go North reveals the incredibly tangled web of intrigue, duplicity, and hoax that has bedeviled past historians' efforts to answer the 'Where did Drake land?' question." --Jeff LaLande, historian and archaeologist, "Seldom does a published book rewrite accepted history as thoroughly and as convincingly as the Darby volume. Thunder Go North deserves wide acceptance and will always be used when studying Drake's trip around the world." -- Pacific Historical Review, "Darby's book is a masterpiece of detective work into the various claims for the landing location of Drake and the Golden Hind in the summer of 1579. With similarities to the Cardiff Giant and Piltdown Man hoaxes, Darby's work uncovers a potential scientific conspiracy by one of California's most renowned historians. She masterfully weaves a tale of political intrigue, fraud, and ego into an academic treatise that reads more like a historical mystery novel. Sometimes truth can be stranger than fiction!" --Todd Braje, professor of anthropology, San Diego State University, and author of Shellfish for the Celestial Empire: The Rise and Fall of Commercial Abalone Fishing in California, "Where on the North American Pacific coast did Francis Drake land his ship the Golden Hind in 1579? The quest for an answer is full of political maneuvering and subterfuge (then and now). Melissa Darby's detailed investigation and new conclusion as to the long controversial location of Drake's landing should provoke much new research, both historical and archaeological." --R. Lee Lyman, professor and chair, Department of Anthropology, University of Missouri-Columbia
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
942.05/5092
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
F851.5.D35 2019
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