The secret voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 /
"In The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Bawlf masterfully recounts the drama of this historic expedition, offering intriguing insight into life at sea in the sixteenth century - from the dangers of mutiny and the lack of knowledge about wind and current to the arduous physical challe...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Bawlf, Samuel. | |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The secret voyage of Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 / |c Samuel Bawlf. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Sir Francis Drake, 1577-1580 |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Walker, |c 2003. | ||
| 300 | |a xii, 400 p. : |b ill., maps, ports. ; |c 25 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [367]-371) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | 0 | |t Acknowledgments -- |t Note to the reader -- |t Prologue -- |g pt. 1. The |t quest for riches -- |g 1. |t San Juan d'Ulúa -- |g 2. |t Letters of marque -- |g 3. |t Drake's private war -- |g 4. A |t passage to Cathay -- |g 5. The |t South Sea project -- |g pt. 2. |t Round about the whole globe of the Earth -- |g 6. The |t preparations -- |g 7. A |t troubled beginning -- |g 8. The |t coast of Barbary -- |g 9. |t Land of giants -- |g 10. |t Island of blood -- |g 11. |t Into the South Sea -- |g 12. |t Chile -- |g 13. |t Peru -- |g 14. |t New Spain -- |g 15. |t News from the South Sea -- |g 16. The |t Moluccas -- |g 17. |t Homeward -- |g pt. 3. |t Celebrity and secrecy -- |g 18. "A |t very short way" -- |g 19. |t "Islands of good land" -- |g 20. |t "Seen and corrected by Sir Drake" -- |g 21. |t "That posterity be not deprived" -- |g 22. A |t forgotten secret -- |g pt. 4. The |t northern voyage, April to September 1579 -- |g A |t record of discovery -- |g 23. |t Drake's Strait of Anian -- |g 24. |t Nova Albion -- |g 25. |t Point of position -- |g 26 A |t sorrowful farewell -- |t Postscript : an old sailor's yarn -- |t Notes -- |t Bibliography -- |t Art credits -- |t Index. |
| 520 | 1 | |a "In The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, Samuel Bawlf masterfully recounts the drama of this historic expedition, offering intriguing insight into life at sea in the sixteenth century - from the dangers of mutiny and the lack of knowledge about wind and current to the arduous physical challenges faced every day by Drake's men. But it is Bawlf's asertion of Drake's whereabouts in the summer of 1579 that gives this book even greater originality. From an intensive study of maps of the period, Bawlf shows with certainty that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska - much farther than anyone has heretofore imagined - thereby rewriting the history of exploration in North America. 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, which could wrest control of the Pacific, and the wealth of the East Indies, from Spain. Drake's voyage was 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."--BOOK JACKET. | |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Drake, Francis, |d approximately 1540-1596 |x Travel. |
| 600 | 1 | 0 | |a Drake, Francis, |d approximately 1540-1596 |x Travel |z Northwest Coast of North America. |
| 650 | 0 | |a Explorers |z Great Britain |v Biography. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Northwest Coast of North America |x Discovery and exploration |x British. | |
| 988 | |a 20030711 | ||
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