Francis Drake: Lives of a Hero
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Author(s)John Cummins
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN / ASIN0312163657
ISBN-139780312163655
Sales Rank2,756,578
CategoryBiography & Autobiography
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
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This is a full-blooded portrait, based on research in English and Spanish archives, of the greatest seaman of the Elizabethan age. Drake's was a life of drama in which opportunism, courage, greed, religion, international politics and luck all played a part alongside the immense sailing skill and navigational brilliance of the first man to sail his ship all the way around the world.
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