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THE SECRET VOYAGE OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE , 1577 to 1580
by Samuel Bawlf
Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver , British Columbia / Toronto, Ontario Canada
2003 First Edition Fi...rst Printing
This book is a HARDCOVER in fine condition. The Dust Jacket is in near fine condition.
This book has 400 pages & index, maps, bibliography and black and white photographs and illustrations.
Publisher Comments: When Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580, many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unanswered his journals were impounded and his men were forbidden, on pain of death, to divulge where they had been.
Drawing on newly uncovered evidence, geographer and maritime historian Samuel Bawlf masterfully reconstructs Francis Drake's historic round-the-world expedition, exploring the drama surrounding the voyage and offering intriguing insights into life at sea in the sixteenth century.
But it is Bawlf's assertion of Drake's whereabouts in the summer of 1579 that gives the book even greater originality: from an intensive study of maps of the period, Bawlf shows with certainty that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska much farther than anyone has heretofore imagined thereby rewriting the history of exploration in North America.
CONTENTS INCLUDE
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Prologue
PART ONE== The Quest for Riches
San Juan de Ulua
Letters of Marque Drake's Private War
A Passage to Cathay
The South Sea Project
PART TWO== Round About the Whole Globe of the Earth
The Preparations
A Troubled Beginning
The Coast of Barbary
Land of Giants
Island of Blood
Into the South Sea
Chile
Peru
New Spain
News from the South Sea
The Moluccas
Homeward
PART THREE ==Celebrity amid Secrecy
"A Very Short Way"
"Islands of Good Land"
Seen and Corrected by Sir Drake"
That Posterity Be Not Deprived"
A Forgotten Secret
PART FOUR ==The Northern Voyage, April to September 1579
A Record of Discovery
Drake's Strait of Anian
Nova Albion
Point of Position
A Sorrowful Farewell
Postscript; An Old Sailor's Yarn
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ART CREDITS
INDEX
FROM THE COVER ==A rip-roaring tale adventure on the high seas and backroom intrigue in the halls of power at home in England, ""Mavens of maritime history will tingle at this kind of sleuthing, and they'll rollick as well in Bawlf 's fluid retelling of Drake's drama-filled life at sea and court."
ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship, the Golden Hinde, into Plymouth harbor on the coast of England. He had long been given up for lost, and rumors quickly circulated about where he had been on his three-year voyage and about the huge haul of plunder he had brought home. Queen Elizabeth immediately imposed a veil of secrecy around Drake's travels, and his men were ordered not to say where they had been "on pain of death."
Drake had completed one of the greatest sea voyages of all time. In a ship barely 100 feet long and with only crude navigational instruments to guide him through vast, uncharted oceans, he covered more than 40, 000 miles and was the first to sail completely around the globe. Author Samuel Bawlf masterfully recounts the drama of this extraordinary expedition within the context of England's struggles with Catholic Europe and Drake's ambition to open the Pacific to English enterprise, and he also offers fascinating insights into life at sea in the sixteenth century.
But it is his revelation of Drake's whereabouts in the summer of 1579 that makes this book especially exciting. Piecing together the evidence in contemporary accounts and maps, Bawlf shows that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska in search of the western entrance to the fabled Northwest Passage, farther north than anyone has heretofore imagined, and then chose Vancouver Island to be the site of England's first colony thereby rewriting the history of exploration in North America.
A cast of luminous characters runs through The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: Philip II of Spain, Europe's most powerful monarch; Elizabeth I and her spymaster, Francis Walsingham; the cosmographer John Dee; Abraham Ortelius, the great mapmaker to whom Drake leaked his Pacific discoveries.
And Francis Drake himself, remembered most as a privateer and for his victory over the Spanish Armada, emerges as much more: a dynamic leader of men, a brilliant navigator and sailor, and surely one of history's most daring explorers.
SAMUEL BAWLF is a geographer and a former minister in the government of British Columbia, responsible for the province's historic and archaeological sites and its coastal ferry service. He lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.
MORE ABOUT ==Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 – 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, a renowned pirate, and a politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581.
He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588, subordinate only to Charles Howard and the Queen herself. He died of dysentery in January 1596 after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico.
His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards to whom he was known as El Draque, 'Draque' being the Spanish pronunciation of 'Drake'. His name in Latin was Franciscus Draco ('Francis the Dragon').
King Philip II was claimed to have offered a reward of 20, 000 ducats, about £4, 000, 000 (US$6.5M) by modern standards, for his life. He is famous for (among other things) leading the first English circumnavigation of the world, from 1577 to 1580.
MORE ABOUT == New Albion, also known as Nova Albion, was the name of all North America north of Mexico, from "sea to sea, " claimed by Sir Francis Drake for England in 1579. The extent of New Albion and the location of Drake's port have long been debated by historians, with most believing that he came ashore in the Bay Area on the coast of northern California. Albion, "the white", is an archaic name for the island of Great Britain. The name refers to the White Cliffs of Dover.
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THE SECRET VOYAGE OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE , 1577 to 1580
by Samuel Bawlf
Published by Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver , British Columbia / Toronto, Ontario Canada
2003 First Edition Fi...rst Printing
This book is a HARDCOVER in fine condition. The Dust Jacket is in near fine condition.
This book has 400 pages & index, maps, bibliography and black and white photographs and illustrations.
Publisher Comments: When Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580, many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unanswered his journals were impounded and his men were forbidden, on pain of death, to divulge where they had been.
Drawing on newly uncovered evidence, geographer and maritime historian Samuel Bawlf masterfully reconstructs Francis Drake's historic round-the-world expedition, exploring the drama surrounding the voyage and offering intriguing insights into life at sea in the sixteenth century.
But it is Bawlf's assertion of Drake's whereabouts in the summer of 1579 that gives the book even greater originality: from an intensive study of maps of the period, Bawlf shows with certainty that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska much farther than anyone has heretofore imagined thereby rewriting the history of exploration in North America.
CONTENTS INCLUDE
Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Prologue
PART ONE== The Quest for Riches
San Juan de Ulua
Letters of Marque Drake's Private War
A Passage to Cathay
The South Sea Project
PART TWO== Round About the Whole Globe of the Earth
The Preparations
A Troubled Beginning
The Coast of Barbary
Land of Giants
Island of Blood
Into the South Sea
Chile
Peru
New Spain
News from the South Sea
The Moluccas
Homeward
PART THREE ==Celebrity amid Secrecy
"A Very Short Way"
"Islands of Good Land"
Seen and Corrected by Sir Drake"
That Posterity Be Not Deprived"
A Forgotten Secret
PART FOUR ==The Northern Voyage, April to September 1579
A Record of Discovery
Drake's Strait of Anian
Nova Albion
Point of Position
A Sorrowful Farewell
Postscript; An Old Sailor's Yarn
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ART CREDITS
INDEX
FROM THE COVER ==A rip-roaring tale adventure on the high seas and backroom intrigue in the halls of power at home in England, ""Mavens of maritime history will tingle at this kind of sleuthing, and they'll rollick as well in Bawlf 's fluid retelling of Drake's drama-filled life at sea and court."
ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1580, Francis Drake sailed his ship, the Golden Hinde, into Plymouth harbor on the coast of England. He had long been given up for lost, and rumors quickly circulated about where he had been on his three-year voyage and about the huge haul of plunder he had brought home. Queen Elizabeth immediately imposed a veil of secrecy around Drake's travels, and his men were ordered not to say where they had been "on pain of death."
Drake had completed one of the greatest sea voyages of all time. In a ship barely 100 feet long and with only crude navigational instruments to guide him through vast, uncharted oceans, he covered more than 40, 000 miles and was the first to sail completely around the globe. Author Samuel Bawlf masterfully recounts the drama of this extraordinary expedition within the context of England's struggles with Catholic Europe and Drake's ambition to open the Pacific to English enterprise, and he also offers fascinating insights into life at sea in the sixteenth century.
But it is his revelation of Drake's whereabouts in the summer of 1579 that makes this book especially exciting. Piecing together the evidence in contemporary accounts and maps, Bawlf shows that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska in search of the western entrance to the fabled Northwest Passage, farther north than anyone has heretofore imagined, and then chose Vancouver Island to be the site of England's first colony thereby rewriting the history of exploration in North America.
A cast of luminous characters runs through The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: Philip II of Spain, Europe's most powerful monarch; Elizabeth I and her spymaster, Francis Walsingham; the cosmographer John Dee; Abraham Ortelius, the great mapmaker to whom Drake leaked his Pacific discoveries.
And Francis Drake himself, remembered most as a privateer and for his victory over the Spanish Armada, emerges as much more: a dynamic leader of men, a brilliant navigator and sailor, and surely one of history's most daring explorers.
SAMUEL BAWLF is a geographer and a former minister in the government of British Columbia, responsible for the province's historic and archaeological sites and its coastal ferry service. He lives on Saltspring Island, British Columbia.
MORE ABOUT ==Sir Francis Drake, Vice Admiral (1540 – 27 January 1596) was an English sea captain, privateer, navigator, slaver, a renowned pirate, and a politician of the Elizabethan era. Elizabeth I of England awarded Drake a knighthood in 1581.
He was second-in-command of the English fleet against the Spanish Armada in 1588, subordinate only to Charles Howard and the Queen herself. He died of dysentery in January 1596 after unsuccessfully attacking San Juan, Puerto Rico.
His exploits were legendary, making him a hero to the English but a pirate to the Spaniards to whom he was known as El Draque, 'Draque' being the Spanish pronunciation of 'Drake'. His name in Latin was Franciscus Draco ('Francis the Dragon').
King Philip II was claimed to have offered a reward of 20, 000 ducats, about £4, 000, 000 (US$6.5M) by modern standards, for his life. He is famous for (among other things) leading the first English circumnavigation of the world, from 1577 to 1580.
MORE ABOUT == New Albion, also known as Nova Albion, was the name of all North America north of Mexico, from "sea to sea, " claimed by Sir Francis Drake for England in 1579. The extent of New Albion and the location of Drake's port have long been debated by historians, with most believing that he came ashore in the Bay Area on the coast of northern California. Albion, "the white", is an archaic name for the island of Great Britain. The name refers to the White Cliffs of Dover.
military army navy airforce marines aeroplanes airplanes jet fighters world war two British Columbia Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba Yukon Ontario Quebec New Brunswick Nova Scotia Newfoundland Prince Edward Island Labrador North West Territories Canadiana Canada
SHIPPING COSTS FOR USA BUYERS ONLY is at $ 7.50 US Funds Includes Tracking Number . PLEASE NOTE : For USA and International Buyers , I ship ONLY ONCE a WEEK on THURSDAY AM from a USPS Post Office in Washington State, USA . Books will be Protected and Very Well PackagedBuyer to pay shipping costs .
Please Note : FOR CANADIAN BUYERS ONLY, I SHIP CANADIAN ORDERS FROM VANCOUVER BC .
Please email me for shipping costs within Canada. I will then send an invoice before you pay.
Ebay requires I put a Flat Rate Shipping Cost for World Wide destinations (Including Canada) which in most cases will be higher than the shipping cost for Canada.
EMAIL FIRST FOR CANADA POST RATES WITHIN CANADAFor Canadian Bidders we ship daily from Canada.
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