drake, francis

Simple text and illustrations present the life story of sixteenth-century explorer and buccaneer Sir Francis Drake, the first English person to sail around the world.

Surveys the life and voyages of Sir Francis Drake and the expansion of the English naval fleet in the sixteenth century.

Presents a humorous account of what it might have been like to sail with Sir Francis Drake on a voyage to find the North West Passage to the Spice Islands in 1577--and raid a few Spanish ships along the way.

Retells in poetry the daring adventures of the explorer who was the first Englishman to sail around the world; helped to defeat the Spanish Armada; and who, encouraged by Queen Elizabeth I, was a feared pirate in his time.

Presents a biography of Sir Francis Drake, first English explorer to circumnavigate the globe.

A brief biography of the English explorer and seaman who traveled around the world and to the New World and fought against the Spanish Armada.

A biography of Sir Francis Drake, focusing on his activities as a pirate and slave trader, which made him a hero in England, but earned him the name of the Dragon by the Spanish.

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.

Traces the journeys and discoveries of Sir Francis Drake and other sixteenth-century mariners.

A biography of the sixteenth-century English sea captain Sir Francis Drake, who is famous for his voyage around the world, his raids against the Spanish, and his defeat of the Spanish Armada.