Digitised by Google Books from the collection at the University of Wisconsin - Madison https://books.google.com/books?id=FallAAAAMAAJ The Preface saysThere is nothing new under the sun. The stories of John Hawkins, Drake, Anson, Cook, Franklin, the late Captain Scott, and other voyagers dealt with in this book have been told many times before.Biographies and volumes on voyages of exploration, however, are generally beyond the reach of the average reader, while short popular narratives are sometimes too sketchy in their detail to give a true picture.This book aims at something mid-way between the two - summarised accounts of certain of what I have called our "Sea Venturers" which, while historically accurate, endeavour also to give an idea of the maritime world in which these seamen had their being, the ships in which they voyaged and the manner in which they lived, achieved and died.ContentsThe Voyages of Sir John Hawkins page 1Sir Martin Frobisher page 43Drake's Voyage of Circumnavigation page 71William Dampier page 104Anson and the “Centurion" page 144Captain James Cook page 176Sir John Franklin in the Arctic page 208Captain Scott in the Antarctic page 258