Under Drake's Flag
Title | Under Drake's Flag PDF eBook |
Author | George Alfred Henty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 344 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | Adventure stories |
ISBN |
Historical adventure tale featuring Ned Hearn, a young teenager who sails with Francis Drake, experiencing a harsh seafaring life, strange, unexplored lands; and witnessing the great naval battle between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada.
In Freedom's Cause
Title | In Freedom's Cause PDF eBook |
Author | George Alfred Henty |
Publisher | London : Blackie |
Pages | 456 |
Release | 1885 |
Genre | Scotland |
ISBN |
At the turn of the fourteenth century in Scotland, young Archie Forbes becomes involved with both William Wallace and Robert the Bruce in the struggle for Scottish independence from English rule.
Seas of Venus
Title | Seas of Venus PDF eBook |
Author | David Drake |
Publisher | Baen Books |
Pages | 299 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0743435648 |
Earth is a dead cinder and the last of the human race struggles for survival beneath the dense clouds of Venus. Two courageous visionaries--the fighting men Brainard and Gordon--must struggle through the hellish surface jungles, but if they fail, both Venus and Mankind will die.
In Search of a Kingdom
Title | In Search of a Kingdom PDF eBook |
Author | Laurence Bergreen |
Publisher | HarperCollins |
Pages | 464 |
Release | 2021-03-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0062875388 |
“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors' Choice In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus reveals the singular adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history. “Entrancing . . . Very good indeed.” —Wall Street Journal Before he was secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe, or was called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was perhaps the most wanted—and successful—pirate ever to sail. Nicknamed “El Draque” by the Spaniards who placed a bounty on his head, the notorious red-haired, hot-tempered Drake pillaged galleons laden with New World gold and silver, stealing a vast fortune for his queen—and himself. For Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from a third-rate island kingdom into a global imperial power. In 1580, sailing on Elizabeth’s covert orders, Drake became the first captain to circumnavigate the earth successfully. (Ferdinand Magellan had died in his attempt.) Part exploring expedition, part raiding mission, Drake’s audacious around-the-world journey in the Golden Hind reached Patagonia, the Pacific Coast of present-day California and Oregon, the Spice Islands, Java, and Africa. Almost a decade later, Elizabeth called upon Drake again. As the devil-may-care vice admiral of the English fleet, Drake dramatically defeated the once-invincible Spanish Armada, spurring the British Empire’s ascent and permanently wounding its greatest rival. The relationship between Drake and Elizabeth is the missing link in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire, and its importance has not been fully described or appreciated. Framed around Drake’s key voyages as a window into this crucial moment in British history, In Search of a Kingdom is a rousing adventure narrative entwining epic historical themes with intimate passions.
Under Drake's Flag
Title | Under Drake's Flag PDF eBook |
Author | George Alfred Henty |
Publisher | |
Pages | 430 |
Release | 1883 |
Genre | Adventure stories |
ISBN |
Historical adventure tale featuring Ned Hearn, a young teenager who sails with Francis Drake, experiencing a harsh seafaring life, strange, unexplored lands; and witnessing the great naval battle between the English fleet and the Spanish Armada.
The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake
Title | The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake PDF eBook |
Author | Samuel Bawlf |
Publisher | D & M Publishers |
Pages | 418 |
Release | 2009-09-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1926706242 |
In The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Bawlf offers fascinating insight into life at sea in the sixteenth century, from the dangers of mutiny and the difficulty of understanding patterns of wind and current to the arduous physical challenges faced every day by Drake’s men. But it is Bawlf's assertion of Drake’s whereabouts in the summer of 1579 that gives his book its exciting originality. Based especially on his seminal study of maps produced after the voyage, Bawlf shows with certainty that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska, much farther north than anyone has heretofore imagined, thereby rewriting the history of exploration. He was, Bawlf claims, in search of the western entrance to the fabled Northwest Passage, at which he planned to found England’s first colony, and wrest control of the Pacific from Spain. Drake’s voyage was in fact so far ahead of its time that another 200 years would pass before the eighteenth-century explorers of record reached the northwest coast of North America.
Flint and Silver
Title | Flint and Silver PDF eBook |
Author | John Drake |
Publisher | Simon and Schuster |
Pages | 369 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 141659275X |
A captivating and original prequel to "Treasure Island" that will delight fans of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic as well as fans of those "other" pirates of the Caribbean.