22: Frobisher prepares to journey to the Arctic by privateering
Martin Frobisher is credited with the first expedition into the Arctic in search of the Northwest Passage. But the idea for the journey didn’t come out of nowhere. Portrait of Martin Frobisher painted two decades after his death. Source: Wikipedia. North America witnessed its first Thanksgiving feast in 1621, or so the myth goes. “Pilgrims” who were in fact religious dissidents (not Anglican) landed in what would become Plymouth, Massachusetts, but being non-explorers, their food ran out. Their new theocratic settlement in the vein of “The Handmade’s Tale” were saved by the Wampanoag peoples who took pity on these rattled foreigners. ...