Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Ebook303 pages6 hours
Thunder Go North: The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake's Fair and Good Bay
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
()
About this ebook
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.
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.
Related to Thunder Go North
Related ebooks
The Coldest Crucible: Arctic Exploration and American Culture The Wolf Ritual of the Northwest Coast Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Pirates Own Book: Authentic Narratives of the Most Celebrated Sea Robbers Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTerra Antarctica: Looking into the Emptiest Continent Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lost World: Rewriting Prehistory---How New Science Is Tracing Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Where Dragons Soar: And Other Animal Folk Tales of the British Isles Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Alliance of Pirates: Ireland and Atlantic piracy in the early seventeenth century Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJohn Mitchel, Ulster and the Great Irish Famine: Samuel Neilson and the United Irishmen Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Land-War in Ireland: A History for the Times Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsRuidoso: The Carmon Phillips Collection Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Religion of the Ancient Celts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPicts, Gaels and Scots: Early Historic Scotland Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Tall Tales of British Columbia Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Colonial New Hampshire: A History Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Essex Folk Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Disappearing Ninth Legion: A Popular History Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855: Glengarry and Beyond Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Fall of the Kingdom of Northumbria Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWith Crook at the Rosebud Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Transforming the Landscape: Rock Art and the Mississippian Cosmos Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsShropshire Folk Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWestern Isles Folk Tales Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Buccaneers of America Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHerefordshire Folk Tales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBannockburn 1314: A New History Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWarriors of the Word: The World of the Scottish Highlanders Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5An Unsung Hero Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Ten Toe Express: A Daily Journal of a 5,000 Mile Hike Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsApostle of the East: The Life and Journeys of Daniel Little Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Strangeness That Is Wales Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
Anthropology For You
A People's History of the United States Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The WEIRDest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo" Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Immortality Key: The Secret History of the Religion with No Name Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Stories of Rootworkers & Hoodoo in the Mid-South Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A History of the American People Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Beauty Myth: How Images of Beauty Are Used Against Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dark Matter of the Mind: The Culturally Articulated Unconscious Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Folk Medicine in Southern Appalachia Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBullshit Jobs: A Theory Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5America Before: The Key to Earth's Lost Civilization Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Seven Basic Plots: Why We Tell Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2: The Pillars of Civilization Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad---and Surprising Good---About Feeling Special Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Selfie: How We Became So Self-Obsessed and What It's Doing to Us Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Bruce Lee Wisdom for the Way Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Tip of the Spear: Black Radicalism, Prison Repression, and the Long Attica Revolt Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Trouble With Testosterone: And Other Essays On The Biology Of The Human Predi Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Psychology of Totalitarianism Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Ireland & Scotland, pt. 2: Shared Celtic Culture 0% found this document usefulThe Voyage That Kickstarted Globalisation: How on ship changed the way we eat forever 0% found this document usefulEp 16 - Ireland in the Viking Age -interview with Broc from Badger King Tattoo 100% found this document usefulEpisode 209: Drying Out | Big Fish (2003), Mythology & Truth 0% found this document usefulAn Irish man who found his Irishness in Australia (Ep. 1): Click here to subscribe to the podcast in iTunes. Click here to subscribe by RSS feed. This is the very first Bitesize Irish Gaelic Podcast. It’s a discussion show for those around the world learning to speak Irish. 100% found this document usefulCuster's Last Stand: Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the Battle of the Little Bighorn, Custer's Last Stand. 100% found this document usefulThe Mendips with Professor Alice Roberts: Clare walks with TV anthropologist and academic Alice Roberts. 0% found this document usefulThe Lingaun – Exploring Ireland's Oldest Frontier Part I 0% found this document usefulThe Bunnikins-Bunnies and the Moon King 0% found this document usefulDr. Jon Turk: Kayaking the World's Most Dangerous Seas. 0% found this document usefulVineland, Vikings, and Lactose Intolerance: Learn more about the Europeans in American 500 years before Columbus 0% found this document usefulA Slum City - Life & Death in Late Victorian Dublin 0% found this document usefulLewis and Clark Expedition 0% found this document usefulThe Mabinogion: Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the medieval Welsh stories of Celtic mythology. 0% found this document useful
Related articles
A Warning To The Fortean Fortean TimesUNLIMITED
A Warning To The Fortean
Jul 14, 2022
9 min readThe 1745 Rising reassessed History ScotlandUNLIMITED
The 1745 Rising reassessed
Oct 8, 2022
Explore a selection of digital history guides in the History Scotland store: https://scot.sh/hsdownload Reminiscences of a Jacobite: The Untold Story of the Rising of 1745 Michael Nevin Birlinn Ltd (2020) pp. 288 Hardback, £25.00; paperback, N/A;
7 min read…THE FAMINE OF THE 1690s History ScotlandUNLIMITED
…THE FAMINE OF THE 1690s
Aug 14, 2021
The 1690s have conventionally been seen as a peculiarly unhappy time for Scotland. The horrors of the first Jacobite rising (1689-91) and the massacre of Glencoe (1692) are part of this narrative, as is the catastrophe of the Darien disaster (1699-17
2 min readWhat’s All the Fuss About… EInk Gallery 3 ComputeractiveUNLIMITED
What’s All the Fuss About… EInk Gallery 3
Jan 18, 2023
A new technology for ebook readers that should make reading in colour a much more enjoyable experience than it currently is. Yes, very. Colours on the few e-readers that can handle them look washed out and faded. They’re not worth the extra money the
2 min readThe Highland War, PART 2 History ScotlandUNLIMITED
The Highland War, PART 2
Feb 11, 2023
13 min readIrish Genealogy Family TreeUNLIMITED
Irish Genealogy
Feb 18, 2020
6 min readRed~Handed Family TreeUNLIMITED
Red~Handed
Jun 23, 2020
7 min readHow Dark Were The Dark Ages? BBC History MagazineUNLIMITED
How Dark Were The Dark Ages?
Feb 20, 2020
10 min readYour Essental Guide To The Vikings History RevealedUNLIMITED
Your Essental Guide To The Vikings
Oct 1, 2020
1 min readSoldiers On The High Seas Medieval Warfare MagazineUNLIMITED
Soldiers On The High Seas
Mar 1, 2022
2 min readNew Research Shows Intensity Of Battle Of Culloden History ScotlandUNLIMITED
New Research Shows Intensity Of Battle Of Culloden
May 29, 2024
2 min readArthurian Legend Tripping Fortean TimesUNLIMITED
Arthurian Legend Tripping
Jan 4, 2021
10 min readWhat If... The Vikings Never Sailed Overseas? History RevealedUNLIMITED
What If... The Vikings Never Sailed Overseas?
Jun 10, 2021
3 min readHistory In The News BBC History MagazineUNLIMITED
History In The News
Oct 29, 2020
2 min readArchæology Fortean TimesUNLIMITED
Archæology
Apr 18, 2024
Last September, the head of a marble statue of Alexander the Great was unearthed amid the ruins of a second century AD theatre at Konuralp, north of the city of Düzce near Turkey’s northwest coast. Alexander the Great died in 323 BC, so the statue ma
6 min readCoal Country: Deindustrialisation And The Making Of Contemporary Scotland History ScotlandUNLIMITED
Coal Country: Deindustrialisation And The Making Of Contemporary Scotland
Oct 8, 2022
13 min readScottish Women and The Spanish Civil War History ScotlandUNLIMITED
Scottish Women and The Spanish Civil War
Feb 12, 2022
13 min readAlfred The Great’s Battles With The Vikings History RevealedUNLIMITED
Alfred The Great’s Battles With The Vikings
Sep 30, 2021
Poor Alfred. The not-insignificant achievements of one of the most important Saxon kings have, largely thanks to primary school history lessons, never got much of a look-in when it comes to the nation’s collective knowledge of him. Instead, he’s ofte
3 min readPitcairn Islands 1940 The First Definitive Set Stamp CollectorUNLIMITED
Pitcairn Islands 1940 The First Definitive Set
Jul 8, 2022
5 min readThe Treaty Of Union: A NECESSARY EVIL? History ScotlandUNLIMITED
The Treaty Of Union: A NECESSARY EVIL?
Dec 9, 2023
12 min readShip Burials History RevealedUNLIMITED
Ship Burials
Oct 1, 2020
1 min read5,000 Years Of Orkney History Told Through 90 Stories History ScotlandUNLIMITED
5,000 Years Of Orkney History Told Through 90 Stories
Jun 11, 2022
1 min readSorrow, Spiritualism And The Birth Of Strange England BBC History MagazineUNLIMITED
Sorrow, Spiritualism And The Birth Of Strange England
Apr 16, 2020
7 min readThe Daphne Disaster, Part 2: Inquiry And Relief Fund History ScotlandUNLIMITED
The Daphne Disaster, Part 2: Inquiry And Relief Fund
Aug 12, 2023
14 min readFeeding Tikal Ask Science and Arts Magazine for Kids and ChildrenUNLIMITED
Feeding Tikal
Feb 1, 2020
4 min readBeyond The Nuts And Bolts Fortean TimesUNLIMITED
Beyond The Nuts And Bolts
Apr 18, 2024
I have just been revising, revamping and tarting-up my 1990 book Portraits of Alien Encounters, which features my investigation of high strangeness encounters and experiences in northern England in the 1970s and early 1980s. A large part of the book
3 min readThe Bigfeet Of Britain Fortean TimesUNLIMITED
The Bigfeet Of Britain
Nov 3, 2022
15 min readThe Highland War PART 3 History ScotlandUNLIMITED
The Highland War PART 3
Apr 8, 2023
13 min readA Magical Mystery Tour Scotland MagazineUNLIMITED
A Magical Mystery Tour
Aug 20, 2021
4 min readScott And The Supernatural Fortean TimesUNLIMITED
Scott And The Supernatural
Oct 7, 2021
11 min read
Reviews for Thunder Go North
Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
4/5
1 rating0 reviews
Book preview
Thunder Go North - Melissa Darby
Enjoying the preview?
Page 1 of 1