The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher by Robert McGhee, British Museum
Press, £19.99, ISBN 0714125644
MARTIN Frobisher’s name still has a ring to it. He was one of the Elizabethan
sailors knighted for his part in defeating the Spanish Armada, but once his main
motive had been plunder. Like many of the “seadogs” he had been a privateer. In
the lavishly illustrated The Arctic Voyages of Martin Frobisher, Robert McGhee
tells the tale of his three expeditions in search of a Northwest Passage.
Frobisher was the first European to sail to the Arctic and make contact with
the Inuit, a…
