Author: Philip Nichols
Publisher: e-artnow
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 71
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Sir Francis Drake Revived is an account of Drake's travels written and compiled by Philip Nichols, preacher who accompanied Drake on his journeys. The book presents a summary and true relation of several voyages made by Sir Francis Drake to the West Indies. It contains accounts faithfully taken out of the report of Master Christopher Ceely, Ellis Hixom, and others who were in the same voyages with him. Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596) was an English explorer, sea captain, privateer, slave trader, naval officer, and politician. Drake is best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition, from 1577 to 1580. This included his incursion into the Pacific Ocean, until then an area of exclusive Spanish interest, and his claim to New Albion for England, an area in what is now the American state of California.
Author: Philip Nichols
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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This book recounts the adventure of Sir Francis Drake. The book describes Drake as the greatest of the naval adventurers of England of the time of Elizabeth, and the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe after raiding the Spanish treasure ships.
Author: University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520048768
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Languages : en
Pages : 670
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Author: P. F. Collier
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Languages : en
Pages : 386
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Author: Ignacio Gallup-Díaz
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351106716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 255
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This book presents a bold, multifaceted interpretation of early English imperial actions by examining the ways in which English empire-builders and travelers interacted with Indigenous and African peoples during the long process of colonization in the Americas. Ignacio Gallup-Díaz argues that early English imperial actors were primarily motivated by practical concerns rather than abstract ideologies—from reacting to, learning from, and avoiding the ongoing Spanish and Portuguese imperial projects to the dynamic collision of English imaginings of empire with the practical realities of governing non-European peoples. The text includes an appendix of primary sources that allows students and instructors to engage with English imperial thinking directly. Readers are encouraged to critically examine English accounts of this period in an attempt to see the Indigenous and African peoples who are embedded in them. European Expansion and Representations of Indigenous and African Peoples provides an invaluable new framework for undergraduate students and instructors of early American history, Atlantic history, and the history of race and imperialism more broadly.
Author: Dukes of Devonshire Library (Chatsworth)
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Category : Early printed books
Languages : en
Pages : 498
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Author: Benerson Little
Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA
ISBN: 1610595009
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 271
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Who were the world’s most successful pirates, and why? “Interesting and very readable . . . Little clearly knows his subject well.” —International Journal of Naval History More than just simple retellings of tried-and-true stories of buccaneers on the high seas, this book focuses on pirating tactics of the 1500s through the 1800s to give an in-depth view of how pirates functioned through history. Stories of the thirteen most famous pirates as they raid major ships and pillage coastal villages reveal how the pirates approached such invasions—and how they managed to elude authorities and sometimes whole navies. In addition, vivid firsthand descriptions recreate the excitement, fear, and fury of the most famous raids by these outlaws of the ocean. Delving deep to show piracy’s profound impact on trade, politics, military strategy, culture, and individual lives, the book sifts truth from myth, carefully reconstructs the geopolitical context of each story, and analyzes the tactics that brought the pirates glory, or led to their downfall. Also included are archival images gathered from around the world by the author, a former Navy SEAL and consultant on maritime security.
