Author: KLINKENBORG, VERLYN
Title: Sir Francis Drake and the Age of Discovery Exhibition Catalogue: 5 January -- 1 May 1988
Description: New York: Pierpont Morgan Library, 1988. Softcover. Softcover is stapled wraps. Pages are clean and tight. Illustrated with 9 figures, including a color, full page sized map, 6 b/w figures, and a two page, color drawing of Cayman Island. Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 – 1596) was the most famous mariner in the Elizabethan age [1558 - 1603. He was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, and politician. Elizabeth I of England knighted Drake in 1581. He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588, which ended as a naval disaster for the Spanish. He also carried out the second circumnavigation of the world, from 1577 to 1580. ; B & W and Color; 6 X 9; 20 pages; Cover has slight shelf wear and rubbing.. Near Fine .

Keywords: Explorers; Adventurers; British History; English History; Maps; Cartography; Military Leaders; Voyages of Discovery; Elizabethan England; Native American History Cultural History Animals Education European History History American History Art Orient/Asia