Drake: The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero

by Stephen Coote

Book Overview

Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in his bearing, heroic if sometimes foolhardy in his enterprise, a genius at once awe-inspiring and riddled with faults. He is... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312341652
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Palgrave
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.0" x 2.0" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

History novel and perfect prose all in one

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.