Drake
Subtitle: The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Published: July 28, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780312341657
Subjects: Historical - British; Biography & Autobiography / Historical; Historical - General; Biography & Autobiography; Biography / Autobiography; 16th century; Admirals; Biography; Explorers; Great Britain; History; Voyages around the world; Biography/Autobiography
First sentence: Slaving and the Africa trade had fascinated Drake and Hawkins since their earliest youth when the riches of Guinea were the common talk of the Hawkins household, where Drake himself spent his formative years.