Elizabethan Sea-Dogs: A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
by William Wood
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About This Book
Excerpt from The New ContinentPeople of today. Limits of space and the desire to make this book readable have led to the omission of the detailed proof of some of the conclusions here set forth. The special student will recog nize such cases and will not judge them until he has read the author's fuller statements elsewhere. The general reader, for whom this book is designed, will be thankful for the omission of such purely technical details.
Chapters (21)
- ELIZABETHAN SEA-DOGS
- A Chronicle of Drake and His Companions
- 1918
- PREFATORY NOTE
- CONTENTS
- ELIZABETHAN SEA-DOGS
- CHAPTER I — ENGLAND'S FIRST LOOK
- CHAPTER II — HENRY VIII, KING OF THE ENGLISH SEA
- CHAPTER III — LIFE AFLOAT IN TUDOR TIMES
- CHAPTER IV — ELIZABETHAN ENGLAND
- CHAPTER V — HAWKINS AND THE FIGHTING TRADERS
- CHAPTER VI — DRAKE'S BEGINNING
- CHAPTER VII — DRAKE'S 'ENCOMPASSMENT OF ALL THE WORLDE'
- CHAPTER VIII — DRAKE CLIPS THE WINGS OF SPAIN
- CHAPTER IX — DRAKE AND THE SPANISH ARMADA
- CHAPTER X — 'THE ONE AND THE FIFTY-THREE'
- CHAPTER XI — RALEIGH AND THE VISION OF THE WEST
- CHAPTER XII — DRAKE'S END
- APPENDIX — NOTE ON TUDOR SHIPPING
- BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
- Index
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