Sir Francis Drake

Slaver. Sailor. Privateer. Navigator. Legend. One of “Elizabeth’s Explorers” alongside Hawkins and Thomas Cavendish, Drake was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe from 1577-80. Personifying the era and written with dash and verve, ‘Sir Francis Drake’ is a swashbuckling naval biography about a man whose life was more remarkable than the legend it gave rise to.