Francis Drake Lands in North America - with ’Thunder Go North’ Author Melissa Darby

Where did Francis Drake land in North America? The debate on the definitive location - 'the fair and good bay' - is full of adventure, hoaxes, cultural memes, maps… And muskrats!

Melissa Darby is affiliated research faculty in the Anthropology Department at Portland State University. She has contributed substantially to our understanding of the Native peoples and the world they inhabited prior to European colonization. Her book Thunder Go North: The Hunt for Sir Francis Drake’s Fair & Good Bay was published by the University of Utah Press in 2019 and is about the mysterious and vexed question of where Francis Drake landed the Golden Hind in the summer of 1579.Where did Drake land in North America? The debate on the definitive location - 'the fair and good bay' - is full of adventure, hoaxes, cultural memes, maps… And muskrats!

Melissa Darby is affiliated research faculty in the Anthropology Department at Portland State University. She has contributed substantially to our understanding of the Native peoples and the world they inhabited prior to European colonization. Her book Thunder Go North the Hunt for Sir Francis Drake’s Fair & Good Bay was published by the University of Utah Press in 2019 and is about the mysterious and vexed question of where Francis Drake landed the Golden Hind in the summer of 1579.

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