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An edition of Sir Francis Drake (1998)

Sir Francis Drake

the Queen's pirate

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  • 4 Want to read

In this new biography, Harry Kelsey shatters the familiar image of Sir Francis Drake. The Drake of legend was a pious, brave, and just seaman who initiated the move to make England a great naval power and whose acts of piracy against his country's enemies earned him a knighthood for patriotism.

Kelsey paints a different and far more interesting picture of Drake as an amoral privateer at least as interested in lining his pockets with Spanish booty as in forwarding the political goals of his country, a man who became a captain general of the English navy but never waged traditional warfare with any success.

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Yale University Press
Language
English
Pages
566

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Subjects

History, Naval, Naval History, Admirals, Privateering, Explorers, Biography, History, Pirates, Drake, francis, sir, 1540?-1596, Great britain, history, naval, Drake, francis, approximately 1540-1596, Amiraux, Biographies, Explorateurs, Histoire navale

People

Francis Drake Sir (1540?-1596)

Places

Great Britain

Times

16th century, Elizabeth, 1558-1603, Tudors, 1485-1603

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Cover of: Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake: El Pirata De LA Reina
October 2002, Ariel Publications
Hardcover in Spanish
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Cover of: Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake: The Queen`s Pirate (Yale Nota Bene)
August 11, 2000, Yale University Press
Paperback in English
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Cover of: Sir Francis Drake
Sir Francis Drake: the Queen's pirate
1998, Yale University Press
in English
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Book Details

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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New Haven
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
942.05/5/092, B
Library of Congress
DA86.22.D7 K45 1998, DA86.22.D7K45 1998, DA86.22.D7 K45 2000

The Physical Object

Pagination
xviii, 566 p. :
Number of pages
566

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Open Library
OL693074M
Internet Archive
sirfrancisdrakeq00kels
ISBN 10
0300071825
LCCN
97040312
OCLC/WorldCat
44694568, 37594253
Library Thing
256284
Goodreads
2797267

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