Unknown Shore: The Lost History of England's Arctic Colony

This "engrossing, well-paced" history reveals how England's first colony in the New World was forgotten—and rediscovered three centuries later (New Yorker).

England's first attempt at colonizing the New World was not at Roanoke or Jamestown, but on a small, mostly frozen island in the Canadian Arctic. Queen Elizabeth I called that place Meta Incognita, the Unknown Shore. Backed by Elizabeth and her key advisors, the erstwhile pirate Sir Martin Frobisher crossed the North Atlantic to find—or ...