Francis Drake by John Cummins

Francis Drake

John Cummins

348 pages first pub 1996 (editions)

nonfiction biography history informative slow-paced
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This is a full-blooded and absorbing portrait, based on research in English and Spanish archives, of the greatest seaman of the Elizabethan age. From his family's fierce Protestantism and early poverty which drove Drake to sea while still a boy un...

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