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North-East Passage to Muscovy

Author : C P Mayers

Publisher : The History Press

Page : 234 pages

File Size : 16,8 MB

Release : 2005-07-21

Category : History

ISBN : 0752495739

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Book Description

North-East to Muscovy explores important and overlooked sea voyages, the motivation behind them, the geographical knowledge acquired on them which put England in the forefront of cartography, and the extraordinary dealings of the Muscovy Company - which included passing on a proposal of marriage to Elizabeth I from Ivan the Terrible.