Drake: The Life & Legend of an Elizabethan Hero.

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1st. 2005. Hardcover. Cloth, xxx pp. Very Good. Seller Inventory # Z0016688

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Synopsis: One of history's greatest maritime adventure stories and its hero come to life in this enthralling new biography S ir Francis Drake: Pirate, explorer and zealot, a genius at once awe-inspiring and riddled with faults. He is the archetypal Elizabethan sea-dog, and Stephen Coote's brilliant new book rescues him from the dusty pages of history. With novelistic verve, Coote re-creates all the episodes that made Drake's reputation: The excitement and terror of the raids on Spanish Caribbean ports during his privateering days; the extraordinary feat of circumnavigation aboard the 'Golden Hind'; and Drake's role in the famous defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588.

From the Inside Flap: "Fascinating... reads almost as a novel... presents a vivid picture of this legendary but flawed hero."
-- History Today on Drake

“Coote brings to life the Restoration and the sly lascivious king who personified it...Coote strikes gold.”
-- Kirkus Review (starred) on Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II"

As Royal Survivor, Coote's entertaining gallop through [Charles II's] life, reminds us, Charles's talents would shine even today...."
--Washington Post Book world on Royal Survivor, Life of Charles II

"[Coote] understands that popular biography is supposed to tell a story" --Sunday Times (UK) on W.B. Yeats: A Life

"Coote brings off Pepys's turbulent life colorfully and with sympathy. ... No academic read, Samuel Pepys will appeal to a broad, and broad-minded, audience." --Publishers Weekly on Samuel Pepys: A Life

"This is a splendid and stirring story, vividly written." --Contemporary Review on A Play of Passion: The Life of Sir Walter Raleigh

Bibliographic Details

Title: Drake: The Life & Legend of an Elizabethan ...
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Publication Date: 2005
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Used - Very Good