“Any Strange Beast There Makes a Man”: Interaction and Self-Reflection in the Arctic (1576-1578)

• Published in: Revue LISA / LISA e-journal
• Main Author: Lemercier-Goddard, Sophie
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: French
• Published: Presses universitaires de Rennes 2015
• Subjects: Frobisher; premiers contacts; Inuit; voyages de découverte et d’exploration; récits de voyage; Arctique; Frobisher Martin; travel writing; the Arctic; litt; lang; Arctic; Découverte; Arctique*; Baffin; inuit; North West Passage; Passage du Nord-Ouest
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.4000/lisa.8756; http://journals.openedition.org/lisa/8756

The Arctic regions were the first contact zones in the New World where English explorers negotiated otherness and difference, before Francis Drake’s stay in California (July 1579) or the colonization attempt on Roanoke Island (1584-1587). Frobisher’s three voyages in search of the North-West Passage...