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Sir Francis Drake: Circumnavigator of the Globe and ...

Sir Francis Drake: Circumnavigator of the Globe and ...

Joy Paige

A biography of British pirate and explorer Sir Francis Drake, featuring his search for riches in the Americas and his eventual voyage around the world.
A Voyage Round the World

A Voyage Round the World

Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake, William Dampier David Laing Purves. William P. Nimmo & Co., Edinburgh, NIMMO's N AT I O N A L L I B R A R Y. In crown 8vo, with Steel Frontispiece and Vignette, handsomely bound, cloth extra, price 5s. each; also in full ...
Immortal Pirate: The Life of Sir Francis Drake

Immortal Pirate: The Life of Sir Francis Drake

Marguerite Eyer Wilbur

The Life of Sir Francis Drake Marguerite Eyer Wilbur. immortal prate ir Jf rancfe 29rafee BY MARGUERITE EYER WILBUR KOBERTA SARAH TWYFORD MEMORIAL PUBLIC LIBRARY -*v EARKSLEY, HASTINGS HOUSE Publishers New ...
SIR FRANCIS DRAKE

SIR FRANCIS DRAKE

Francis Russell Hart

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.
Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580: Essays ...

Sir Francis Drake and the Famous Voyage, 1577-1580: Essays ...

University of California, Los Angeles. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies

62) but was released immediately. He writes about Drake's successes and gives information about Fenton's fleet. Excerpts translated in Wagner 401-402, reprinted in Taylor 23 6-23 7. 61. Richard Madox Diary. 1582-83. B. L. Cotton MSS app.
The Drake Family of Washington County, Georgia: With the ...

The Drake Family of Washington County, Georgia: With the ...

Charles Edward Francis Drake

Robert Eldon Drake was an indefatigable genealogist and produced at least three books on the history of this family. The record of descendants outlined in these pages draws, in part, on his work. The main strength of his books lies in their ...
Pathways to the Universe

Pathways to the Universe

Sir Francis Graham-Smith

Sir Francis Graham-Smith, Sir Bernard Lovell ... Trailers of borrowed radar equipment arrived in a field at Jodrell Opposite Sir Bernard Lovell (right) and Sir Francis Graham-Smith (left) in front of the 250-foot Lovell Telescope at Jodrell Bank ...
Sir Francis Drake EBook

Sir Francis Drake EBook

Mitchell Lane Publishers Inc.

Could a headless body actually swim around a ship three times? Science tells us this is preposterous.But many gray areas exist between the simple fact that Blackbeard was an actual person and the absurd idea that he was superhuman.
The Sea King: Sir Francis Drake and His Times

The Sea King: Sir Francis Drake and His Times

Albert Marrin

An account of the life and exploits of the notable sixteenth-century English navigator and commander, the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe and vice-admiral of the fleet that defeated the Spanish Armada. By the author of.
Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion, and ...

Annals of the reformation and establishment of religion, and ...

John Strype

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Historical and Biographical Works: Annals of the ...

Historical and Biographical Works: Annals of the ...

John Strype

ANNO Sir Francis Drake to the lord treasurer, concerning the — Jleet landing in Caskays with don Antonio, for recovery ... have often sat to determine it : because we ANNO hear not of our supply, which is to come UNDER QUEEN ELIZABETH.
Descendants of Exum Drake

Descendants of Exum Drake

Robert Eldon Drake

Exum Drake lived in Southampton County, Virginia. Richard Drake (1775- 1857), one of his sons, married Pheraba Bryant and moved to Emanuel County, Georgia.
Drake: An Unauthorized Biography

Drake: An Unauthorized Biography

Belmont and Belcourt Biographies

Aubrey Drake Graham, also known as Drake, is one of the most talked about hip hop artists today.
New York Magazine

New York Magazine

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THE FOOL— Michael Dorn Moody's play about Sir Francis Drake's voyage around the world; directed by Paul Austin. Thurs. -Sun., thru 3/31 at 8. Image Theater, 432 W. 42nd St. (564-1786). FOREVER MY DARUN'— Dan Owens' s play with ...
The Chinese

The Chinese

sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.)

sir John Francis Davis (1st bart.) an experiment." And yet this discovery of the metallic base of potash was one result of the investigations of Sir Humphry Davy, whose practical applications of his scientific discoveries to useful and beneficial ...
Pirates: From Blackbeard to Walking the Plank

Pirates: From Blackbeard to Walking the Plank

Collins UK Staff

Pirates covers everything from peg legs to parrots, including: Profiles of real pirates from John Paul Jones and Blackbeard to Sir Francis Drake What life was like on board a pirate ship Pirates from ancient times to the modern age
Annual Conclave

Annual Conclave

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C E. Sir Lyman Chandler Hurd, E. Sir Amasa Ogden Clapp, E. Sir Francis Granger Jaques, E. Sir John Charles Black, E. Sir Mahlon Lindley. MEMBERS.— ISaaC Albright, Edward Blackshaw, Joseph Black, Myron Stodard Brown, Jesse Burt, ...
Bubbles from the brunnens of Nassau, by an old man [sir F.B. ...

Bubbles from the brunnens of Nassau, by an old man [sir F.B. ...

sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.)

sir Francis Bond Head (1st bart.) like the fire in the grate, it begins to warm its new mansion." Such was the scene, and such was the effect, daily witnessed round one of nature's simplest and most beneficent remedies. All the drinkers seemed ...
Bibliotheca Americana Nova: A Catalogue of Books in Various ...

Bibliotheca Americana Nova: A Catalogue of Books in Various ...

Obadiah Rich

Rev. by the Addition of Two Supplements Obadiah Rich. 322 Hakluyt's (Rich.) Principal Navigations, Voyage?, and Discoveries of the English Nation, First Edition, with the suppressed Voyage of Sir Francis Drake, folio, fine copy, in calf,  ...
KNIGHTAGE & COMPANIONAGE

KNIGHTAGE & COMPANIONAGE

DEBRETT'S BARON ETAGE

Domyile, Sir Charles Compton William, 2nd Bart Domvile, Sir William Compton, 3rd Bart Douglas, Sir Robert, 3rd Bart. ... DrrrzE, Sir Lewis, 3rd Bart. Elton, Sir Edward ... Shockbcroii, Sir George Thomas Francis, 9th Bart. Stonhoose, Sir Henry ...
Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph

Sir Francis Ronalds: Father of the Electric Telegraph

Beverley Frances Ronalds

Little recognized until now, his extraordinary legacy is brought to life through never-before published sources written by people close to the man himself.In this book, details of Sir Francis's inventions — covering areas as diverse as ...
I. The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K. B., to the ...

I. The Claims of Sir Philip Francis, K. B., to the ...

Edmund Henry Barker

Three days afterwards, a severe invective against that nobleman followed, which was two months before the public were apprised of the dismissal of Sir Philip Francis ; and after this dismissal we have a long account of Lord Barrington's life  ...
Black Butterfly

Black Butterfly

Robert M. Drake

Drake wrote this book for those who have lost someone in death and in life. This book is a collection of memories and experiences Drake lived after the death of one of his brothers.
Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe

Time, Space, and Women's Lives in Early Modern Europe

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The women were Lady Catherine Lovell, Anne Lovell, Lady Bedingfield, and Mary Mordaunt. Catherine Lovell was married to Sir Thomas, son of Sir Gregory; Anne Lovell was the wife of Sir Thomas's younger brother Francis; Francis was the ...
Descriptive essays contributed to the Quarterly review

Descriptive essays contributed to the Quarterly review

Francis Bond Head (sir, 1st bart.)

Francis Bond Head (sir, 1st bart.) ... on reflection, surprising that a gentleman of ready abilities should, in due time, learn to decipher "broad writing" — such as " sromfredevi," for Sir Humphry Davy; "Ner the Wises," for Near Devizes ; " Biley Ilikey ...
Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Delphi Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney (Illustrated)

Sir Philip Sidney

Sir Philip Sidney. In 1583 Sidney was knighted, and soon afterwards in the same year he married Frances, daughter of Sir Francis Walsingham. Sonnets written by him according to old fashion, and addressed to a lady in accordance with a ...
Wanderings in West Africa

Wanderings in West Africa

Sir Richard Francis Burton

In 1861, Sir Richard Francis Burton, one of the Victorian era's greatest scholar/adventurers, entered the British Foreign Office as consul in Fernando Po, a Spanish island off the coast of West Africa.
Delphi Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory (Illustrated):

Delphi Complete Works of Sir Thomas Malory (Illustrated):

Sir Thomas Malory

Sir Thomas Malory. there ever still hermit to his life's end. Then Sir Bors de Ganis, Sir Ector de Maris, Sir Gahalantine, Sir Galihud, Sir Galihodin, Sir Blamore, Sir Bleoberis, Sir Villiars le Valiant, Sir Clarrus of Clermont, all these knights drew ...

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