The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake

Informationen zum Autor Samuel Bawlf was a Canadian politican and author. In 1972 he was the youngest person ever elected to the Victoria City Council. He served on the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, as a member of the Social Credit Party, and as the minister of conservation and recreation. He was the author of The Secret Journey of Sir Francis Drake , published in 2003. He died in 2016. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung When Sir Francis Drake returned to England in 1580! many questions concerning his momentous voyage were left unansweredhis 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 Alaskamuch farther than anyone has heretofore imaginedthereby rewriting the history of exploration in North America. Inhaltsverzeichnis The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580Acknowledgments Note to the Reader Prologue Part One: The Quest for Riches 1. San Juan d'Ulúa 2. Letters of Marque 3. Drake's Private War 4. A Passage to Cathay 5. The South Sea Project Part Two: Round About the Whole Globe of the Earth 6. The Preparations 7. A Troubled Beginning 8. The Coast of Barbary 9. Land of Giants 10. Island of Blood 11. Into the South Sea 12. Chile 13. Peru 14. New Spain 15. News from the South Sea 16. The Moluccas 17. Homeward Part Three: Celebrity amid Secrecy 18. "A Very Short Way" 19. "Islands of Good Land" 20. "Seen and Corrected by Sir Drake" 21. "That Posterity Be Not Deprived" 22. A Forgotten Secret Part Four: The Northern Voyage, April to September 1579 A Record of Discovery 23. Drake's Strait of Anian 24. Nova Albion 25. Point of Position 26. A Sorrowful Farewell Postscript: An Old Sailor's Yarn Notes Bibliography Art Credits Index ...

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Samuel Bawlf was a Canadian politican and author. In 1972 he was the youngest person ever elected to the Victoria City Council. He served on the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, as a member of the Social Credit Party, and as the minister of conservation and recreation. He was the author of The Secret Journey of Sir Francis Drake, published in 2003. He died in 2016.

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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.

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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Prologue

Part One: The Quest for Riches

1. San Juan d'Ulúa
2. Letters of Marque
3. Drake's Private War
4. A Passage to Cathay
5. The South Sea Project
   Part Two: Round About the Whole Globe of the Earth
6. The Preparations
7. A Troubled Beginning
8. The Coast of Barbary
9. Land of Giants
10. Island of Blood
11. Into the South Sea
12. Chile
13. Peru
14. New Spain
15. News from the South Sea
16. The Moluccas
17. Homeward
    Part Three: Celebrity amid Secrecy
18. "A Very Short Way"
19. "Islands of Good Land"
20. "Seen and Corrected by Sir Drake"
21. "That Posterity Be Not Deprived"
22. A Forgotten Secret
    Part Four: The Northern Voyage, April to September 1579
    A Record of Discovery
23. Drake's Strait of Anian
24. Nova Albion
25. Point of Position
26. A Sorrowful Farewell
    Postscript: An Old Sailor's Yarn
    Notes
    Bibliography
    Art Credits
    Index