Sir Humphrey Gilbert (1539–83) was an Elizabethan adventurer, explorer, member of parliament and soldier who served during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I and was a pioneer of the English colonial empire in North America. He was a maternal half-brother of Sir Walter Raleigh and a cousin of Sir Richard Grenville. His dramatic death at sea in 1583 is immortalized by American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Enjoy this ENCORE Presentation!

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LibriVox: A Book of American Explorers by T.W. Higginson, read by D. Desalvo; Sir Humphrey Gilbert, an 1850 poem by American Poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, from The Seaside and the Fireside, in the “By the Seaside” section of the volume.