REVIEWS anticipate with much pleasure that the voyage will doubtless be far from uneventful.
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Mr. Lehman, NMHS Overseer, was Secretary of the Navy during the Reagan administration. This review is excerpted from The Wall Street Journal.
Archeology of the Frobisher Voyages, edited by William W. Fitzhugh and Jacqueline S. Olin (Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington DC, 1993, 238pp, illus, gloss, biblio, index; $45hb) Martin Frobisher's voyages of discovery in the New World (1576-1578) have remained an enigmatic anomaly in North Atlantic exploration history. While published journals of some of the participants are available, interpreting the archival information has always been a problem. Where did they actually make camp and explore in the New World? Who were the people they met? What was the ore that they thought contained gold and which instigated the last costly expedition? What were the "Frobisher" artifacts brought to the United States and Great Britain from Canada in later years? Were the iron blooms really Elizabethan English, or were they Norse from even earlier voyages? Fitzhugh and Olin try to answer these questions, describe the recent expeditions sent to Frobisher Bay to gather more information, and present the latest analyses and interpretations in a volume which is a series of fourteen articles by historians, archaeologists, and other scientists working on various aspects of the project. The book begins with four chapters on the history of the Frobisher expeditions, the English written records, the American Indian oral traditions about the early English, and later explorers who returned with "Frobisher relics." In the second section, the authors describe more recent archaeological expeditions by the Smithsonian Institution to Kodlunarn Island and neighboring land and an analysis of recovered ceramics. The third section is a description of, and conclusions from, the dating and chemical analyses conducted on the artifacts, especially the mysterious iron blooms. In the last chapter, Fitzhugh interprets the information gathered from the preceding studies, draws some interesting conclusions, and poses some important questions still unanswered. He argues for more research, especially field SEAHISTORY68, WINTER 1993-1994
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