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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 :4.0/5 (487 download)
Book Synopsis Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580 by : University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
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:
Book Synopsis Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580 by : Norman J. W. Thrower
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580 written by Norman J. W. Thrower and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World by : Francis Pretty
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World written by Francis Pretty and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-08-01 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World" by Francis Pretty. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Book Synopsis The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by : Samuel Bawlf
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.
Book Synopsis Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World by : Henry Raup Wagner
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake's Voyage Around the World written by Henry Raup Wagner and published by San Francisco, Calif. : J. Howell. This book was released on 1926 with total page 612 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
Book Synopsis The World Encompassed by : Derek Wilson
Download or read book The World Encompassed written by Derek Wilson and published by Allison and Busby. This book was released on 1998 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ... No mariner had attempted the feat for fifty years; no captain had ever successfully negotiated all the world's uncharted oceans to bring his vessel safely home let alone bring back enough gold and silver in her hold...
Book Synopsis Sir Francis Drake by : Peter Whitfield
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:
Book Synopsis Sir Francis Drake by : British Library
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake written by British Library and published by British Library. This book was released on 1977 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Francis Drake and the Oceans of the World by : Samuel Willard Crompton
Download or read book Francis Drake and the Oceans of the World written by Samuel Willard Crompton and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1577-1580, Drake led the second expedition to sail around the world. During his voyage he made several important discoveries: finding the tip of South America, disproving the theory of the Northwest Passage, and charting the North American Pacific co
Book Synopsis Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Into the South Sea by : Francis Drake, Sir
Download or read book Famous Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Into the South Sea written by Francis Drake, Sir and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-19 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrative of Francis Drake's voyage to the South Seas.
Book Synopsis New Light on Drake, A Collection of Documents relating to his Voyage of Circumnavigation, 1577-1580 by : Zelia Nuttall
Download or read book New Light on Drake, A Collection of Documents relating to his Voyage of Circumnavigation, 1577-1580 written by Zelia Nuttall and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Spanish official documents, depositions by prisoners, documents relating to Nuño da Silva, etc., translated and edited. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1914. Owing to technical constraints the contemporary engraved portrait of Sir Francis Drake which appeared in the original edition of the book is not included.
Book Synopsis New Light on Drake by : Zelia Nuttall
Download or read book New Light on Drake written by Zelia Nuttall and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Maps & Civilization by : Norman J. W. Thrower
Download or read book Maps & Civilization written by Norman J. W. Thrower and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-11-15 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise introduction to the history of cartography, Norman J. W. Thrower charts the intimate links between maps and history from antiquity to the present day. A wealth of illustrations, including the oldest known map and contemporary examples made using Geographical Information Systems (GIS), illuminate the many ways in which various human cultures have interpreted spatial relationships. The third edition of Maps and Civilization incorporates numerous revisions, features new material throughout the book, and includes a new alphabetized bibliography. Praise for previous editions of Maps and Civilization: “A marvelous compendium of map lore. Anyone truly interested in the development of cartography will want to have his or her own copy to annotate, underline, and index for handy referencing.”—L. M. Sebert, Geomatica
Book Synopsis The World Encompassed by : Francis Drake
Download or read book The World Encompassed written by Francis Drake and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The World Encompassed by Sir Francis Drake by : Sir Francis Drake
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:
Book Synopsis In Search of a Kingdom by : Laurence Bergreen
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.
