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Name: Laurence Bergreen - In Search of a Kingdom (retail) (epub)
Format: epub
Size: 3.98 MB

Title: In Search of a Kingdom
Author: Laurence Bergreen
Language: English
Year: 2009
Subjects: N/A
Publisher: Custom House
ISBN: 978-0865652514
Total pages: 280 str.

In this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan, Columbus, and Marco Polo brings alive the singular life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, the pirate/explorer/admiralwhose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history
"Bergreen masterly portrays ... the swashbuckling life and times of the explorer who achieved what Magellan could not-and made England's fortune in the process." -Kirkus, STARRED review
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,...