Unknown Shore

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 so