Bibliograph

Sir Francis Drake, the Queen's pirate, Harry Kelsey

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Sir Francis Drake, the Queen's pirate, Harry Kelsey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

individual biography

Illustrations

illustrationsmaps

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Sir Francis Drake

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

37594253

Responsibility statement

Harry Kelsey

Review

"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."--Jacket

Sub title

the Queen's pirate

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Creator