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:
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
Download or read book The Story of Sir Francis Drake written by Letitia MacColl Elton and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2022-08-21 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Story of Sir Francis Drake" by Letitia MacColl Elton Sir Francis Drake was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition. He often goes unappreciated, which is why this book by Elton is so important. It shines a light on one of the most important figures in travel history.
Download or read book Francis Drake written by John Cummins and published by Phoenix. This book was released on 1995 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This biography presents Drake through the accounts of friends and enemies on both the national and personal level. From his family's fierce love of Protestantism, and their early poverty which drove him to sea while still a boy, until his death at sea in 1596, it was a life of drama in which opportunism, courage, greed, religion and national policy all played a part, alongside the sailing skill and navigational brilliance of the first man to sail all the way around the world. His naval battles and audacious piratical raids on Spain's empire and shipping are described using eye-witness accounts from both Spanish and English and his stormy personal relationships reveal a man whose distrust of colleagues contrasted with a generosity of spirit which was a source of wonder to his enemies.
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.
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.
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.
Download or read book The Second in the World to Sail the Globe written by Farren Phillips and published by . This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Sir Francis Drake, a murderous pirate working for the Queen of England in the 16th century, was the second person in the world known to sail around the globe. On a quest to steal treasures, hunt for spices, and annoy the King of Spain as much as possible, Francis and his crew aboard the Golden Hind might not have been the first, but they were certainly the wackiest. Follow his travels full of perils, pongs, and penguins, and learn a little history along the way."--
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by Harry Kelsey and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this lively and engaging 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. Kelsey paints a far more interesting picture of Drake as an amoral privateer who lined his pockets with Spanish booty. 98 illustrations.
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by Lynn Hoogenboom and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details the life and exploits of Sir Francis Drake, an early English slave-trader and pirate who successfully sailed around the world.
Download or read book The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake written by Samuel Bawlf and published by D & M Publishers. This book was released on 2009-09-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Bawlf offers fascinating insight into life at sea in the sixteenth century, from the dangers of mutiny and the difficulty of understanding patterns of wind and current to the arduous physical challenges faced every day by Drake’s men. But it is Bawlf's assertion of Drake’s whereabouts in the summer of 1579 that gives his book its exciting originality. Based especially on his seminal study of maps produced after the voyage, Bawlf shows with certainty that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska, much farther north than anyone has heretofore imagined, thereby rewriting the history of exploration. He was, Bawlf claims, in search of the western entrance to the fabled Northwest Passage, at which he planned to found England’s first colony, and wrest control of the Pacific from Spain. Drake’s voyage was in fact so far ahead of its time that another 200 years would pass before the eighteenth-century explorers of record reached the northwest coast of North America.
Download or read book Famous Men of Modern Times written by John Henry Haaren and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Queen s Pirate Sir Francis Drake and the Golden Hind written by and published by Leapfrog Press. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake and the Trip Around the World written by Blake Hoena and published by Black Sheep. This book was released on 2020-08 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ""Exciting illustrations follow events in the life of Sir Francis Drake. The combination of brightly colored panels and leveled text is intended for students in grades 3 through 8"--Provided by publisher."--
Download or read book The Life and Death of the Valiant and Renowned Sir Francis Drake written by Samuel Clarke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-02 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Life and Death of the Valiant and Renowned Sir Francis Drake: His Voyages and Discoveries in the West-Indies, and About the World; With His Noble and Heroick Acts Againft thés'tfmeroq, had fled from their Sp rca cruelty, and were b thigt time grown toa nation un' der two. Who acl'almoet furprifed it about the weeksb 1. Captain Dh'déf, havmg leamedf What he couldtof themgfetthcfe Negroer on filoré, that: they mightgo to their Countrfeyi-men the Sjncrom, and to prevent any notice that they might give to Nombre' dc, dim of'his appmach5&fo baited his going thither. For which-end he difpofed of all his companies, leaving the three ihips and vel with Captain Rawfc, and chofe into his Pinnaces (making the Shallop one fifty three of his own company, and twenty/of Captain Rdwfe's: Pro yiding-fit arms for them: viz. Firepikes, twelve Pikag. Twenty four Muskets and Calievcrs, (he teen two'tmmpetsh Then leaving thew compahy; they arrived at the lfland of Cata'aaazr, . Where-landing early in. Ing', Captain Drake there trained his them their, feveralarms, 'weh hithertohe hadskcpt (cafe in good easkslencouragingthemto the cmwmwifiby Cl Drake. Them the Weaknefs of. The unwalleds, the unexpeé'tednefs of their coming and the great Riches, and honor that Was; to be gained ifthey elfeéted it; And in the afternoon hefet bre de Dior, and betore-sun-fet, gat as far as Rio Fran-gafoza' om whence, heeping clofe to the lhore that they d; his, ifkovered bytthe Watch-houfe, ' they. Ues of the Point of the.bay, where he caufgzd rike a Hull, andto calf out their grapicre, till it was darka when night was comin ting fail, and rowinghhard and filently, they recovered the Point, of the Harbour purpofing not to attempt: the Town till Day-breake. Butgaptain Drake'hearing' that fome; ofhis mehxbegan to tglleofthe dificulty and danger of the enterprife, to put._-by'thefe conceitsyihe tooke the Opportunityet the tiling Moon to perfwade them that it was Day, .fo that they got to'the Town, an hormbefore theday brake. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Life Voyages and Exploits of Sir Francis Drake written by John Barrow and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1844 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The life of sir Francis Drake by J Campbell Together with the historical and genealogical account of sir F Drake s family and extracts from Nicholson s History of Cumberland ed by sir T T Fuller Eliott Drake written by John Campbell and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
