Title: Sir Francis Drake
First published: 1998
Description: In this new biography, Harry Kelsey shatters the familiar image of Sir Francis Drake. The Drake of legend was a pious, brave, and just seaman who initiated the move to make England a great naval power and whose acts of piracy against his country's enemies earned him a knighthood for patriotism.

Kelsey paints a different and far more interesting picture of Drake as an amoral privateer at least as interested in lining his pockets with Spanish booty as in forwarding the political goals of his country, a man who became a captain general of the English navy but never waged traditional warfare with any success.
Subjects: History, Naval, Naval History, Admirals, Privateering, Explorers, Biography, History, Pirates, Drake, francis, sir, 1540?-1596, Great britain, history, naval, Drake, francis, approximately 1540-1596, Amiraux, Biographies, Explorateurs, Histoire navale
Places: Great Britain
People: Francis Drake Sir (1540?-1596)
Time periods: 16th century, Elizabeth, 1558-1603, Tudors, 1485-1603
LC classification: DA86.22.D7 K45 1998