Describes the religious and territorial conflict between England and Spain and discusses the events of 1588 when the Spanish Armada met the English navy in the English Channel.
Presents a brief biography of the English seaman and explorer who was knighted by Queen Elizabeth I for helping to make England a world power by circumnavigating the globe and raiding Spanish ships.
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.
Explains what it was like to travel around England in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries and discusses how different literary works portrayed the English traveler.
Describes conditions in Elizabethan schools, providing information about the types of schools, teachers and pupils, subjects taught, and attitudes toward education.
from the reign of Henry the 4th to the death of Charles the 1st
Austen, Jane
1993
Contains a collection of short parodies by Jane Austen about the monarchy of England from Henry IV to Charles I depicting them as ordinary individuals.
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.
