John Davis (ca. 1550-1605)
. Davis was not typical of the seagoing adventurers of his age, whether Spanish or English. He indulged in none of their quarrelsome rivalries, and had none of their ravenous greed for wealth and glory. His writing is without the bombast to which some of his contemporaries were addicted. He made no...
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ftunivcalgaryojs:oai:journalhosting.ucalgary.ca:article/65238 2023-05-15T14:19:15+02:00 John Davis (ca. 1550-1605) Neatby, L.H. 1984-01-01 application/pdf https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65238 eng eng The Arctic Institute of North America https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65238/49152 https://journalhosting.ucalgary.ca/index.php/arctic/article/view/65238 ARCTIC; Vol. 37 No. 2 (1984): June: 91–194; 176-177 1923-1245 0004-0843 Biographies Coasts Davis John 1550-1605 Expeditions Explorers History Mapping Navigation Baffin Bay-Davis Strait Ellesmere Island Nunavut Hudson Strait Nunavut/Québec Labrador Labrador Sea Northwest Passage info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion other 1984 ftunivcalgaryojs 2022-03-22T21:22:19Z . Davis was not typical of the seagoing adventurers of his age, whether Spanish or English. He indulged in none of their quarrelsome rivalries, and had none of their ravenous greed for wealth and glory. His writing is without the bombast to which some of his contemporaries were addicted. He made no startlingly original discovery: his work was to extend, clarify, and give shape to Frobisher's casual and incoherent observations. The well-informed Luke Foxe credits Davis, not Frobisher, with "lighting Hudson into his strait." His survey of the Labrador from the north nearly overlapped that of Jacques Cartier from the south; in truth, the two of them - oddly, both probably of Welsh descent - had roughly laid down the Canadian seaboard from the Arctic Circle to Gaspe Peninsula and furnished a recognizable outline of our eastern shore. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Baffin Bay Baffin Bay Baffin Davis Strait Ellesmere Island Hudson Strait Labrador Sea Northwest passage Nunavut University of Calgary Journal Hosting Arctic Baffin Bay Ellesmere Island Hudson Hudson Strait ENVELOPE(-70.000,-70.000,62.000,62.000) Luke ENVELOPE(-94.855,-94.855,56.296,56.296) Northwest Passage Nunavut ARCTIC 37 2 |
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. Davis was not typical of the seagoing adventurers of his age, whether Spanish or English. He indulged in none of their quarrelsome rivalries, and had none of their ravenous greed for wealth and glory. His writing is without the bombast to which some of his contemporaries were addicted. He made no startlingly original discovery: his work was to extend, clarify, and give shape to Frobisher's casual and incoherent observations. The well-informed Luke Foxe credits Davis, not Frobisher, with "lighting Hudson into his strait." His survey of the Labrador from the north nearly overlapped that of Jacques Cartier from the south; in truth, the two of them - oddly, both probably of Welsh descent - had roughly laid down the Canadian seaboard from the Arctic Circle to Gaspe Peninsula and furnished a recognizable outline of our eastern shore. |
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