Meta Incognita

Download or read book Meta Incognita written by Canadian Museum of Civilization and published by Hull, Quebec : Published by the Canadian Museum of Civilization with the authorization of the Meta Incognita Project Steering Committee. This book was released on 1999 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Meta Incognita Project casts new light on the Arctic voyages of Martin Frobisher. Although the Elizabethan venture failed to discover a northwest passage or to establish a colony in the Arctic, it left valuable legacies. Research by a team of scholars addresses such subjects as organizational methods, financial speculation, cartography, ship construction, navigational science, metallurgy, health care intercultural relations, even espionage.