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Article: Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. .(Book Review)
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- September 22, 2002
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James McDermott. Martin Frobisher: Elizabethan Privateer. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. 2001. Pp. xv, 509. $35.00. ISBN 0-300-08380-7.
The life of Martin Frobisher deserves a biographer with sufficient determination to create a portrait from fragmentary images. Fortunately, Yale University historian James McDermott is equal to the challenge. He has provided a fine study of the sometimes enigmatic sixteenth-century master mariner, discoverer, and speculator. Martin Frobisher was an extraordinary English mariner in an age of extraordinary mariners including Sir Francis Drake, John Hawkins, and Sir Walter Raleigh.
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