Titlebook: Sir Humphrey Gilbert and the Elizabethan Expedition; Preparing for a Voya Nathan J. Probasco Book 2020 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and Th

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,Proving Cartography’s Worth: The Maps of Gilbert’s Expedition,n colonizing expedition. Maps by veteran merchants Michael Lok and Robert Thorne included in Richard Hakluyt’s . helped readers conceptualize Hakluyt’s written propositions. Lok’s rudimentary drawing depicted Norumbega as the ideal location from which to establish commerce with Europe, the Americas,

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,Competition Drives Innovation: Assembling Gilbert’s Expedition,nd procuring supplies. Tens of thousands of sailors called Elizabethan England home, but few had seen the far side of the Atlantic and fewer still were willing to undertake a dangerous voyage with a marginal chance of profit. Making matters worse, Gilbert’s preparations coincided with those of Edwar

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,A New and Improved England: The Proposed Composition of Gilbert’s Colony,lan was trading English cloth for North American commodities, a response to Europe’s declining cloth market. He also learned from English merchants and explorers sailing for France, who discovered that ornamental metals were sought after trade items in Western Africa and North America. Gilbert put a

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Conclusion: The Mid-Elizabethan Transition,nd self-sustaining colony survived. The alliance formed by wealthy London merchants, university-educated experts, and experienced artisans during voyages like Gilbert’s of the 1570s and 1580s gave English expansionists enthusiastic settlers and much needed financial backing. The experimental nature

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role of cartography, natural science, and promotional literaThis book examines the 1583 voyage of Sir Humphrey Gilbert to North America. This was England‘s first attempt at colonization beyond the British Isles, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An ex

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Conclusion: The Mid-Elizabethan Transition,lonizers who followed him. Gilbert failed to achieve his goal of creating a thriving North American colony, but his legacy was visible in England’s first successful colonies of the early seventeenth century.

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Book 2020, yet it has not been subject to thorough scholarly analysis for more than 70 years. An exhaustive examination of the voyage reveals the complexity and preparedness of this and similar early modern colonizing expeditions. Prominent Elizabethans assisted Gilbert by researching and investing in his ex