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North-East Passage to Muscovy: Stephen Borough and the First Tudor Explorations.(Brief article)(Book review)
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Contemporary Review
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June 22, 2006
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North-East Passage to Muscovy: Stephen Borough and the first Tudor Explorations. Kit Mayers. Sutton Publishing. [pounds sterling]20.00. xiii + 241 pages. ISBN 0-7509-4069-7. The name of Stephen Borough is not well known yet he was one of the most important among Tudor navigators. He made two attempts (1553 and 1556) to find a north-east passage to the Orient and while neither was successful the journeys were epic and influential: it was because of Borough's efforts that the Muscovy ...
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