Extraordinary Journey of David Ingram - An Elizabethan Sailor in Native North America

Maligned for centuries as a fictional tale, David Ingram's survival of a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico and journey north through the American continent is here convincingly proven to be both remarkable and true.

List of contents

• 1. Introduction


• 2. Ingram in the 1560s


• 3. Ingram in Africa


• 4. Ingram in the Caribbean


• 5. The Long Walk, Autumn 1568


• 6. The Long Walk, Winter 1568-1569


• 7. The Long Walk, Spring 1569


• 8. The Long Walk, Summer 1569


• 9. The Return


• 10. Ingram in the 1570s


• 11. Ingram in the 1580s


• 12. Ingram's Legacy


• Appendix: A New Transcript

About the author

Dean Snow received his BA from the University of Minnesota and his PhD from the University of Oregon. He taught at the University of Maine and the University at Albany before assuming the headship of the Department of Anthropology at Penn State in 1995. He is an anthropological archaeologist and an ethnohistorian who has conducted field research in Mexico, the US, France, and Spain. He has served as president of the Society for American Archaeology and the American Society for Ethnohistory, as well as serving as an officer in the American Association for the Advancement of Science and three regional associations.

Summary

Maligned for centuries as a fictional tale, David Ingram's survival of a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico and journey north through the American continent is here convincingly proven to be both remarkable and true.

Additional text

Snow has done good service to Ingram and to the wider understanding of the world of early Elizabethan mariners. At the very least, this book will provoke scholars to look with fresh eyes on the extraordinary journey of David Ingram.

Product details

• Authors: Dean Snow, Dean (Emeritus Professor of Anthropology Snow
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.03.2023
• EAN: 9780197648001
• ISBN: 978-0-19-764800-1
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / General, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), North America, HISTORY / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), HISTORY / Maritime History & Piracy, Geographical discovery & exploration, maritime history, History of the Americas, Geographical discovery and exploration, North America (USA and Canada), Biography: historical, political and military, c 1500 to c 1600, c 1560 to c 1569