Sir Francis Drake

Author : Roy Gerrard
Publisher : Sunburst
ISBN 13 : 9780374466886
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by Roy Gerrard and published by Sunburst. This book was released on 1989-01 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Retells in poetry the daring adventures of the explorer who was the first Englishman to sail around the world; helped to defeat the Spanish Armada; and who, encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I, was a feared pirate in his time.

Author : John Sugden
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1448129508
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by John Sugden and published by Random House. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How well do you know the life of one of Britain’s great maritime heroes? Discover the truth behind a man who remains a legendary figure of history more than four hundred years after his death. Sir Francis Drake’s career is one of the most colourful on record. The most daring of the corsairs who raided the West Indies and Spanish Main, he led the English into the Pacific, and cirumnavigated the world to bring home the Golden Hind laden with Spanish treasure. His attacks on Spanish cities and ships transformed his private war into a struggle for surivival between Protestant England and Catholic Spain, in which he became Elizabeth I's most prominent admiral and marked the emergence of England as major maritime nation. ‘Excellent...It deserves to become the standard Drake life. His scholarship is impeccable’ Frank McLynn, Sunday Telegraph

Author : Peter Whitfield
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814794036
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by Peter Whitfield and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Samuel Bawlf
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802718086
Total Pages : 421 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake written by Samuel Bawlf and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 421 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On September 26, 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship, the Golden Hinde, into Plymouth Harbor on the southwest coast of England. Samuel Bawlf masterfully recounts the drama of this extraordinary expedition within the context of England's struggle to withstand the aggression of Catholic Europe and Drake's ambition for English enterprise in the Pacific. He offers fascinating insight into life at sea in the sixteenth century-from the dangers of mutiny and the lack of knowledge about wind and current to the arduous physical challenges faced every day by Drake's men. A cast of luminous characters runs through The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: Philip II of Spain, Europe's most powerful monarch; Elizabeth's spymaster and powerful advisor, Francis Walsingham; the encyclopedic cosmographer John Dee; and Abraham Ortelius, the great Dutch mapmaker to whom Drake leaked his Pacific discoveries. In the end, though, it is Francis Drake himself who comes most fully to life through the lens of his epic voyage. Remembered most as a privateer and for his victory over the Spanish Armada, the Drake that emerges from these pages is so much more: a dynamic leader of men, a brilliant navigator and sailor, and surely one of history's most daring explorers.

Author : Sir Francis Drake
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake written by Sir Francis Drake and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520048768
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580 written by University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Charles Nick
Publisher : Turtleback Books
ISBN 13 : 9780606151351
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by Charles Nick and published by Turtleback Books. This book was released on 2009-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For use in schools and libraries only. What sight sent shivers down the spines of 16th-century Spanish sailors? The masts of any ship belonging to Sir Francis Drake the slave trader, pirate, and looter known as "The Dragon," who prowled the seas from the Mediterranean to the Pacific Ocean.

Author : Philip Nichols
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1406852694
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Francis Drake Revived written by Philip Nichols and published by . This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on contemporary reports of fellow crew members, reviewed by Sir Francis Drake himself, and set forth by Drake's nephew.

Author : Laurence Bergreen
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062875388
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.89/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of a Kingdom written by Laurence Bergreen and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus reveals the singular adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history. “Entrancing . . . Very good indeed.” —Wall Street Journal Before he was secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe, or was called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was perhaps the most wanted—and successful—pirate ever to sail. Nicknamed “El Draque” by the Spaniards who placed a bounty on his head, the notorious red-haired, hot-tempered Drake pillaged galleons laden with New World gold and silver, stealing a vast fortune for his queen—and himself. For Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from a third-rate island kingdom into a global imperial power. In 1580, sailing on Elizabeth’s covert orders, Drake became the first captain to circumnavigate the earth successfully. (Ferdinand Magellan had died in his attempt.) Part exploring expedition, part raiding mission, Drake’s audacious around-the-world journey in the Golden Hind reached Patagonia, the Pacific Coast of present-day California and Oregon, the Spice Islands, Java, and Africa. Almost a decade later, Elizabeth called upon Drake again. As the devil-may-care vice admiral of the English fleet, Drake dramatically defeated the once-invincible Spanish Armada, spurring the British Empire’s ascent and permanently wounding its greatest rival. The relationship between Drake and Elizabeth is the missing link in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire, and its importance has not been fully described or appreciated. Framed around Drake’s key voyages as a window into this crucial moment in British history, In Search of a Kingdom is a rousing adventure narrative entwining epic historical themes with intimate passions.

Author : Sir Francis Drake
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9780904180015
Total Pages : 428 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1585-86 written by Sir Francis Drake and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 1981-01-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Documents published and unpublished, particularly journals kept aboard the ships, including the newly-discovered Leicester journal, with drawings of episodes made by the voyage's artist. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1981.