Author: CUMMINS, JOHN.
Title: Francis Drake: The Lives of a Hero.
Description: Med. 8vo; pp. xvi, 348; illustrated with 16 pages of b/w. photographic plates, 5 text maps, notes, bibliography, index, bound in original stiff illustrated wrappers, very good copy. London; Phoenix Giant; 1997. An absorbing portrait of the greatest seaman of the Elizabethan age. From his family's fierce protestantism and early poverty which drove Drake to sea while still a boy until his death in 1596, it was a life of drama in which opportunism, courage, greed, religion, national policy, and luck, all played their part.

Keywords: biography maritime history