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Sir Francis Drake: The Queen's Pirate
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from Yale Univ Pr (September 1, 1998)
9780300071825 | details & prices | 566 pages | 5.50 × 9.25 × 1.50 in. | 2.20 lbs | List price $60.00
About: Traces the life of Sir Francis Drake, separates the man from the myth, and describes his voyages
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from Yale Univ Pr (August 1, 2000)
9780300084634 | details & prices | 5.00 × 7.75 × 1.75 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $53.00
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Publisher Yale Univ Pr
Publication date September 1, 1998
Pages 566
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780300071825
ISBN-10 0300071825
Dimensions 1.50 by 5.50 by 9.25 in.
Weight 2.20 lbs.
Original list price $60.00
Other format details university press
Summary
Relying on new evidence, an illustrated biography of the sixteenth-century English explorer reveals Drake's complex character, from his patriotic exploits to his acts of piracy, and from his leadership of the English navy to his ineptitude at warfare. UP. (view table of contents)
Amazon.com description: Amazon.com Review: Remembered in standard history texts as an adventurer who helped extend England's maritime empire to the coasts of Africa and the Americas, Francis Drake roamed the world under the patronage of Queen Elizabeth I. He enriched her coffers by attacking Spanish merchant ships in the Caribbean, raiding ports, looting churches, and taking a cut of the slave trade--the acts not of a military man, Harry Kelsey argues, but of a pirate, and of a cowardly one at that as he was given to fleeing at the first sign of danger, leaving his men behind. Even so, for his services Elizabeth awarded Drake a knighthood and a degree of immunity until he failed to appear at his post during a naval engagement against ships of the Spanish armada. He then lost the queen's favor and disappeared from history's stage. Drake has few champions today, certainly fewer than he did in Elizabethan times. Even then he was none too popular. This well-written revisionist biography explains why. --Gregory McNamee

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