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Tom goes with his Uncle Harvey to Peru, where they narrowly escape imprisonment and death as they hunt for buried treasure after tracking down a journal written by John Drake, a young relative of Sir Francis Drake, on a voyage to Lima in 1577. Includes biographical information on John and Francis Drake.
7) Martyr
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John Shakespeare series volume 1
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2009
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388 p. ; 22 cm.
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John Shakespeare, Elizabethan England's most remarkable investigator and brother of William Shakespeare, follows a trail of illicit passions and family secrets, as he attempts to uncover a plot to assassinate Sir Francis Drake, England's most famous sea warrior.
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Special publication volume no. 13
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California Historical Society
Pub. Date
1937
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57 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 28 cm.
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Benchmark Books
Pub. Date
c2003
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76 p. : ill. (some col), col. maps ; 26 cm.
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A biography of the sixteenth-century English explorer who became a national hero for sailing around the world, and confirmed that status through his service as a Vice Admiral battling the Spanish Armada.
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Kultur
Pub. Date
c2006
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1 videodisc (ca. 50 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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The story of the sea-faring privateer and adventurer whose name has become synonymous with one of English history's most celebrated episodes: the defeat of the Spanish Armada in 1588. In fact, Drake's exploits had made him a popular hero long before - he was the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean and the first to circumnavigate the world. This program provides a vivid account of one of the most colorful characters from the Elizabethan era.
13) In search of a kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the perilous birth of the British Empire
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[2021]
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"An exploration narrative of the highest order: the bestselling author of Over the Edge of the World brings alive the extraordinary life and adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history-as a pirate raiding Spanish galleons, as the first explorer to successfully circumnavigate the globe, and as a naval hero who defeated the Spanish Armada and reshaped the global order"--...
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