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Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake

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Number of Chapters: 26

Length: 06 hours and 21 minutes

Language: English

In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), the farmer's son who became Queen Elizabeth's most feared privateer and her most daring and resourceful naval officer. In his quest for the gold and silver of Spanish Peru, he rounded Cape Horn, losing men and ships in that "enchanted void, where wind and water, ice and darkness, seemed to make incessant war." After capturing the treasure ship from the astonished Spaniards, he circumnavigated the globe. As King Philip of Spain amassed his Armada, Drake demonstrated how a naval power, attacking shipping in port and at sea, could cripple the enemy's credit and commerce. Corbett writes of Drake that at "its fullest flood he stemmed the tide of Spanish Empire. It was no less a thing than that." (Pamela Nagami)

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Ch. 1: The Reformation Man, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 1: The Reformation Man, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 2: The Spanish Main, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 2: The Spanish Main, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 3: The Mule Trains, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 3: The Mule Trains, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 4: Gloriana and her Knights, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 4: Gloriana and her Knights, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 5: An Ocean Tragedy, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 5: An Ocean Tragedy, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 6: Waking the South Sea (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 7: The Great Mistake (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 8: The Dragon Loosed, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 8: The Dragon Loosed, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 9: Singeing the King of Spain's Beard, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 9: Singeing the King of Spain's Beard, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 10: In Quest of the Spanish Armada, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 10: In Quest of the Spanish Armada, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 11: The Battle of Gravelines, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 11: The Battle of Gravelines, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 11: The Battle of Gravelines, Pt. 3 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 12: Drake's Armada, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 12: Drake's Armada, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 13: The Last Treasure Hunt, Pt. 1 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 13: The Last Treasure Hunt, Pt. 2 (Pamela Nagami)
Ch. 13: The Last Treasure Hunt, Pt. 3 (Pamela Nagami)
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