Francis Drake (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ronald Syme
- First Published: 1961
- Time of Work: 1554–1596
- Setting: Devonshire and Plymouth, England; Panama; the Caribbean; South America; North America; and the Pacific Ocean
- Principal Characters: Sir Francis Drake, William Hawkins, John Hawkins, John and Joseph Drake, Elizabeth I
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: Voyages, Sailing or sailors, Sixteenth century, Biography, Knights or knighthood, Pirates, Exploration or explorers, Panama or Panamanians, Spanish Armada
- Locales: Caribbean, Oceans, South America, North America, Devonshire, England, Panama, Plymouth, England
Form and Content
Ronald Syme’s Francis Drake: Sailor of the Unknown Seas has no formal chapter or section divisions but is divided loosely into a series of roughly chronological scenes, beginning with the Drake family escaping by night over Dartmoor from the depredations of Queen Mary’s Catholic agents. The narrative then skips to Francis Drake’s boyhood aboard a hulk of a ship in Plymouth harbor and his early voyages with John Hawkins, his uncle and early mentor who became his companion in his voyages to the New World. Sketches and one map of Drake’s travels...
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