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Author
Series
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society volume no. 4
Publisher
Printed for the Hakluyt Society
Pub. Date
1849
Physical Desc
viii, 65 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
3) New light on Drake: a collection of documents relating to his voyage of circumnavigation, 1577-1580
Series
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society volume 2nd ser., no. 34
Publisher
Printed for the Hakluyt Society
Pub. Date
1914
Physical Desc
lvi, 443 [1] p. : ill., ports., maps (1 fold.), facsims. (part fold.) ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Chronicles of America volume 3
Publisher
Yale University Press; [etc.]
Pub. Date
1918
Physical Desc
xi, 252 p. front., ports., fold. map. 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions" by William Wood. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and...
Series
Works issued by the Hakluyt Society volume no. 16
Publisher
Printed for the Hakluyt Society
Pub. Date
1854
Physical Desc
xl, 295 p. : map ; 23 cm.
Language
English
10) Martyr
Author
Series
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
388 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
England is close to war. Within days the axe could fall on the neck of Mary, Queen of Scots, and Spain is already gathering a battle fleet to avenge her.
Tensions in Elizabeth I's government are at the breaking point. At the center of the storm is John Shakespeare, chief intelligencer in the secret service of Sir Francis Walsingham. When an intercept reveals a plot to assassinate England's "sea dragon," Francis Drake, Shakespeare is ordered to protect...
Author
Publisher
Farrar Straus Giroux
Pub. Date
1988
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 24 x 26 cm.
Language
English
Description
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
Series
Burt Franklin research and source works volume no. 88
Publisher
B. Franklin
Pub. Date
[1965]
Physical Desc
2 v. illus.,plates, port. 24cm.
Language
English
13) The age of Drake
Author
Series
Publisher
A. & C. Black
Pub. Date
[1960]
Edition
4th ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 399 p. maps 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
©1998
Physical Desc
xviii, 566 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this new biography, Harry Kelsey shatters the familiar image of Sir Francis Drake. The Drake of legend was a pious, brave, and just seaman who initiated the move to make England a great naval power and whose acts of piracy against his country's enemies earned him a knighthood for patriotism. Kelsey paints a different and far more interesting picture of Drake as an amoral privateer at least as interested in lining his pockets with Spanish booty...
Author
Publisher
Atheneum Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
©1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
168 pages : illustrations, maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
A biography of the sixteenth-century English sea captain Sir Francis Drake, who is famous for his voyage around the world, his raids against the Spanish, and his defeat of the Spanish Armada.
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