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Unknown shore : the lost history of England's Arctic Colony / Robert Ruby

by Robert Ruby

A dual narrative account of the 16th-century attempt to establish an English colony in the Canadian Arctic and its rediscovery 300 years later. It details the search for gold and the significance of Inuit oral history in identifying the site of the lost settlement.

Accession 27839 ISBN 0805052151 Publisher Henry Holt & Co.
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