Sir Francis Drake: The Queen`s Pirate Paperback - 2000
by Harry Kelsey
In this lively and engaging 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. Kelsey paints a far more interesting picture of Drake as an amoral privateer who lined his pockets with Spanish booty. 98 illustrations.
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NO HERO EVER DIES.
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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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- Title Sir Francis Drake: The Queen`s Pirate
- Author Harry Kelsey
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 588
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, Cumberland, Rhode Island, U.S.A.
- Date 2000-08-01
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780300084634 / 0300084633
- Weight 1.9 lbs (0.86 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.4 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 3.56 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 16th Century
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Great Britain - History - Elizabeth,, Explorers - Great Britain
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 97010312
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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