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Founded Upon the Seas - A Narrative of Some English Maritime and Overseas Enterprises During the Period 1550 to 1616 (Paperback)
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Founded Upon the Seas - A Narrative of Some English Maritime and Overseas Enterprises During the Period 1550 to 1616 (Paperback)
Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Naval and Military History
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Sir Walter Oakeshott was a British scholar who is best known as the
discoverer of the Winchester Manuscript of Malory's Morte d'Arthur
while he was an assistant master at Winchester College. He later
became Rector of Lincoln College, and Vice-Chancellor of the
University of Oxford from 1962 to 1964. Oakeshott had a scholarly
interest in Elizabethan exploration, which he examines in this
volume, first published in 1942. He describes the military and
exploratory achievements of the Elizabethan and Stuart navy,
including attempts to find the Northwest Passage, the settlement of
Virginia and the defeat of the Spanish Armada. Oakeshott also
discusses the role of Renaissance thought and contemporary politics
in these achievements, through changes in naval tactics and
advances in cartography. The personalities of leading explorers
including Sir Francis Drake, Sir John Hawkins and Sir Walter
Raleigh are also vividly described in this clear and concise
historical account.
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