John Davis
1550?-1605
British navigator and Arctic explorer who made three voyages in search of a Northwest Passage from Europe to the Indies (1585, 1586, and 1587), visiting Greenland and Baffin Isla...
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John Davis
1550?-1605
English navigator and explorer who went in search of the Northwest Passage from Europe to the Pacific. Davis was born near Dartmouth, in Devon. He fell in love with the sea as a ...
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English navigator John Davis (ca. 1550-1605), though remembered chiefly as a northern explorer, sailed many seas, took part in naval fighting, and invented a nautical instrument.John Davis, a Devonshi...
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John Davis, novelist, poet, translator, and teacher, although not an American by birth or naturalization, owes much of his literary recognition to the United States. His writing career flourished duri...
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John Davis
John Davis
John Davis