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Book Synopsis The Wonderful Travels of Drake by : Peter T. Cavallaro
Download or read book The Wonderful Travels of Drake written by Peter T. Cavallaro and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2004-11-11 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An action adventure novel set in the late Middle Ages, The Wonderful Travels of Drake follows the journey of a young boy, Drake, who accompanies his father and uncle on a trade expedition from their home in Naples to the mysterious land of Cathay, present-day China. His taste for adventure and glory is satisfied on the journey, as he experiences the wonders of seeing foreign, exotic lands, and battles with strange creatures and hostile people that he and his party encounter. In the end, Drake becomes older and wiser, and acquires recognition of some of the wonders and perils of the world, and of life. With colorful companions ranging from monks to ship captains to revloutionaries and fierce foes such as a pack of desert jackals and a vast Mongol horde, Drakes adventures are gripping and amazing. The Wonderful Travels of Drake is an excellent tale that uses the metaphor of a fantastic journey to symbolize the deeper meaning, which is the a young boys transition from being a boy to a man.
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 The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe by : Richard Hakluyt
Download or read book The Voyage of Sir Francis Drake Around the Whole Globe written by Richard Hakluyt and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-02-26 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Their fruits be diverse and plentiful, as nutmegs, ginger, long pepper, lemons, cucumbers, cocos, sago, with divers other sorts...' Scholar, spy, diplomat and supreme propagandist for Elizabethan sea power, Richard Hakluyt's accounts of famed explorers mythologised a nation growing rapidly aware of the size and strangeness of the world - and determined to dominate it. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Richard Hakluyt (c 1552-1616). Hakluyt's Voyages and Discoveries is available in Penguin Classics.
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 Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain, Sir Francis Drake by : Francis Drake
Download or read book The Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain, Sir Francis Drake written by Francis Drake and published by . This book was released on 1683 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Sir Francis Drake's West Indian Voyage, 1585-86 by : Sir Francis Drake
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.
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:
Book Synopsis The Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain, Sir Francis Drake by : Francis Drake
Download or read book The Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain, Sir Francis Drake written by Francis Drake and published by . This book was released on 1683 with total page 22 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 At Drake's Command by : David Wesley Hill
Download or read book At Drake's Command written by David Wesley Hill and published by . This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It was as fine a day to be whipped as any he'd ever seen but the good weather didn't make Peregrine James any happier with the situation he was in. Unfairly convicted of a crime he had not committed, the young cook was strung from the whipping post on the Plymouth quayside when he caught the eye of Francis Drake and managed to convince the charismatic sea captain to accept him among his crew. Soon England was receding in their wake and Perry was serving an unsavory collection of sea dogs as the small fleet of fragile wood ships sailed across the deep brine. Their destination was secret, known to Drake alone. Few sailors believed the public avowal that the expedition was headed for Alexandria to trade in currants. Some men suspected Drake planned a raid across Panama to attack the Spanish in the Pacific. Others were sure the real plan was to round the Cape of Storms to break the Portuguese monopoly of the spice trade. The only thing Perry knew for certain was that they were bound for danger and that he must live by his wits if he were to survive serving at Drake's command.
Book Synopsis The Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain Sir F. Drake Into the West Indies, and Round about the World, Etc by : Sir Francis Drake
Download or read book The Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain Sir F. Drake Into the West Indies, and Round about the World, Etc written by Sir Francis Drake and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish and Dampier, Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Buccaneers by : Christian Isobel Johnstone
Download or read book Lives and Voyages of Drake, Cavendish and Dampier, Including an Introductory View of the Earlier Discoveries in the South Sea, and the History of the Buccaneers written by Christian Isobel Johnstone and published by . This book was released on 1831 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain Sir Francis Drake by : Francis Drake
Download or read book The Voyages and Travels of that Renowned Captain Sir Francis Drake written by Francis Drake and published by . This book was released on 1725 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins by : Kenneth R. Andrews
Download or read book The Last Voyage of Drake and Hawkins written by Kenneth R. Andrews and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an account of the expedition of royal and private ships which left Plymouth in 1595 under the command of Drake and Hawkins with the aim of capturing the city of Panama. The expedition ended in total failure, both leaders died and attempt to capture Grand Canary, Puerto Rico and Panama were all repulsed. For each of the main episodes, Dr Andrews presents documents chosen to illustrate a wide variety of aspects and viewpoints. Most of the material, whether from Spanish or English sources, has not hitherto been published and throws new light on the events and their background. Information on the equipment, financing and personnel of the expedition will be of particular interest to naval historians while the Spanish evidence elucidates the condition and conduct of Spain's imperial defences. There is also a short essay by D.W. Waters on the art of navigation in the age of Drake. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1972.
Book Synopsis Sir Francis Drake Revived by : Philip Nichols
Download or read book Sir Francis Drake Revived written by Philip Nichols and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2020-12-08 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the adventure of Sir Francis Drake. The book describes Drake as the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of the time of Elizabeth, and the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe after raiding the Spanish treasure ships.
Book Synopsis The Voyages & Travels of that Renowned Captain, Sir Francis Drake, Into the West-Indies, and Round about the World by : Francis Drake
Download or read book The Voyages & Travels of that Renowned Captain, Sir Francis Drake, Into the West-Indies, and Round about the World written by Francis Drake and published by . This book was released on 1700 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 427 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.
