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The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram - An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America (Hardcover)
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The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram - An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America (Hardcover)
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In The Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram, author Dean Snow
rights the record on a shipwrecked sailor who traversed the length
of the North American continent only to be maligned as deceitful
storyteller. In the autumn of 1569, a French ship rescued David
Ingram and two other English sailors from the shore of the Gulf of
Maine. The men had walked over 3000 miles in less than a year after
being marooned near Tampico, Mexico. They were the only three men
to escape alive and uncaptured, out of a hundred put ashore at the
close of John Hawkins's disastrous third slaving expedition. A
dozen years later, Ingram was called in for questioning by Francis
Walsingham, Queen Elizabeth's spymaster. In 1589, the historian
Richard Hakluyt published his version of Ingram's story based on
the records of that interrogation. For four centuries historians
have used that publication as evidence that Ingram was an egregious
travel liar, an unreliable early source for information about the
people of interior eastern North America before severe historic
epidemics devastated them. In The Extraordinary Journey of David
Ingram, author and recognized archaeologist Dean Snow shows that
Ingram was not a fraud, contradicting the longstanding narrative of
his life. Snow's careful examination of three long-neglected
surviving records of Ingram's interrogation reveals that the
confusion in the 1589 publication was the result of disorganization
by court recorders and poor editing by Richard Hakluyt. Restoration
of Ingram's testimony has reinstated him as a trustworthy source on
the peoples of West Africa, the Caribbean, and eastern North
America in the middle sixteenth century. Ingram's life story, with
his long traverse through North America at its core, can now
finally be understood and appreciated for what it was: the tale of
a unique, bold adventurer.
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