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...European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, Morison...
...Northern Voyages, Morison...
...European Discovery of America represents Morison's romantic search for the perfect hero-the perfect mariner. He admires the seagoing sophisticates, like Sir Humfry Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh, who, he quotes, also made "voyages of the mind." But he loves the men who were professional sailors first and last. Of Sir Martin Frobisher, who tried three times for a Northwest Passage, he writes: "A very great seaman indeed." There is no higher praise in the Morison lexicon...
Frobisher's last letter contained this sentence: "It was tyme for us to goa through with it." For Morison this sums up the code of the best mariners. It is his code too. At 83, Morison still sails. He rides horseback, too, and occasionally shows up at his office in Harvard's Widener Memorial Library in his riding britches, looking more like a pukka-sahib colonel than a professor or an admiral. At present he is working on a biography of Samuel de Champlain as well as a sequel to his present volume. When his own time comes...
...12th century, so the Madoc myth goes, a Welsh prince led a colony to America. "By some mysterious process," Morison marvels, "this colony became a Welsh-speaking Indian tribe which moved west from the Atlantic shore until it became the Mandan in the Far West...