In Search of a Kingdom : : Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire

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Call Number: 942.055 Be
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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The Island and the Empire -- The Monarch and the Mystic -- "Contrary Winds and Foul Weather" -- Traitor -- Golden Hind -- "The Most Mad Seas" -- "Cruel Courtesy" -- Treasure Fleet -- Cacafuego -- Life among the Miwok -- Deliverance -- Unbroken Blue Water -- Return and Reward -- The Dragon Arrives -- Two Queens, One Throne -- Raid on Cádiz -- Signs and Portents -- Disdain, Revenge, Victory -- A "Top-Earning pirate".
"An exploration narrative of the highest order: the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history-as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"-- Provided by publisher.

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Should be "In Search Of An Editor." submitted by GJBarnett2 on May 20, 2021, 5:59pm Almost unreadable. Centering on Sir Francis Drake's piracy against Spain and circumnavigation of the Globe, Bergeen's background of the emergence of the Spanish Golden Age and Elizabethan England is Incredibly disorganized, jumping, apparently randomly, forward and background in time and subject with no visible "thread." At one moment, Elizabeth is Queen and later still a princess, then back and forth again. Incredibly, there is no mention of the conquest of Mexico, Cortez not even to be found in the Index, and barely more than a single page on Peru and Pizarro. I found myself repeatedly going back to see if I had missed something. Simply not worth the trouble. Read something else.