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Drake: The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero
Average customer rating: 5 out of 5 stars
  • History novel and perfect prose all in one
 Drake: The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero
Stephen Coote
Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0312341652
Release Date: 2005-07-28

Book Description

One of history's greatest maritime adventure stories and its hero come to life in this enthralling new biography S ir Francis Drake: Pirate, explorer and zealot, a genius at once awe-inspiring and riddled with faults. He is the archetypal Elizabethan sea-dog, and Stephen Coote's brilliant new book rescues him from the dusty pages of history. With novelistic verve, Coote re-creates all the episodes that made Drake's reputation: The excitement and terror of the raids on Spanish Caribbean ports during his privateering days; the extraordinary feat of circumnavigation aboard the 'Golden Hind'; and Drake's role in the famous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars History novel and perfect prose all in one.......2006-07-22

Yes many books have been written about Sir Francis Drake the gentleman pirate, but here Mr. Coote blends them all together in a delightful creation of his, which not only details his adventures and crimes in a very objective while simultaneously engaging manner. It also disperses many myths about the nature of his relation with Elizabeth and even more, how his political knack and careful administration of his public persona managed to turn him into a National Hero, while hiding from view that his motivation for all its enduring quests was always the same, greed.
Drake: The Life And Legend Of An Elizabethan Hero
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    		Drake: The Life And Legend Of An Elizabethan Hero
    Stephen Coote
    Manufacturer: Thomas Dunne Books
    ProductGroup: Book
    Binding: Paperback
    ASIN: B000OTCASW

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