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|title=Merchant Adventurers: The Voyage of Discovery that Transformed Tudor England

|author=James Evans

|publisher=Phoenix

|date=October 2014

|summary=A vivid account of a previously little-chronicled expedition which set sail in 1553 from London to Asia, set within the framework of the early years of 16th-century exploration and Tudor England.

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We tend to associate the golden age of global navigation and exploration with the Elizabethan age and such luminaries as Drake, Raleigh and Hawkins. This book does us all a service in reminding us of the original pioneers, whom they overshadowed and who seem less well-remembered these days.