Maligned for centuries as a fictional tale, David Ingram's survival of a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico and journey north through the American continent is here convincingly proven to be both remarkable and true. Snow has done good service to Ingram and to the wider understanding of the world of early Elizabethan mariners. At the very least, this book will provoke scholars to look with fresh eyes on the extraordinary journey of David Ingram.