Title page image from John Dee's The General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation (1577) one of the first texts to express the idea of the "British Empire". The illustration was designed by Dee himself and shows Elizabeth at the helm of a ship (top right), in charge of Britain’s imperial destiny.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Long, Forgotten Walk of David Ingram
If three shipwrecked English sailors really did travel by foot from Florida to Nova Scotia in 1569 then it would certainly count as one of the most remarkable walks undertaken in recorded history. Although the account's more fantastical elements, such as the sighting of elephants, have spurred many to consign it to the fiction department, John Toohey argues for a second look.
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Title page image from John Dee's The General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation (1577) one of the first texts to express the idea of the "British Empire". The illustration was designed by Dee himself and shows Elizabeth at the helm of a ship (top right), in charge of Britain’s imperial destiny.
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1577
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The General and Rare Memorials pertayning to the Perfect Arte of Navigation
