num_pages: 214
description: First edition. A collection of essays commemorating the quadricentennial of Drake's circumnavigation of the earth. To celebrate the four-hundredth anniversary of Drake's Famous Voyage, ten distinguished British and American scholars met and prepared this collection of essays, which examines Drake's sponsors and motives, the problems he encountered with cartography and geography, and the literary response to the voyage. Includes a bibliography and several illustrations and maps. Indexed. xix, i , 214 pages. quarter cloth with paper-covered boards, dust jacket.. small 4to..
language: English
title: Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580: Essays Commemorating the Quadricentennial of Drakes Circumnavigation of the Earth
titlecomplete: Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580: Essays Commemorating the Quadricentennial of Drakes Circumnavigation of the Earth (Contributions ... for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 11)
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publisher: Univ of California Pr