Michael Turner has gone beyond the archives to test all the primary sources about Sir Francis Drake. The 'In Drake's Wake' series is based on visits to almost all of Drake's ports of call. This first in the series covers Drake's early voyages. It will be enjoyed by the Drake scholar and the armchair traveller alike.

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Product Description

This is the first volume of a unique biography of Sir Francis Drake in four volumes. Unique because the author, a Sherlock Holmes of the sea, has retraced all Drake's voyages during the last 20 years. The pictorial topographical text is laced with research and techniques, ground-breaking discoveries and adventures in reaching all the Drake places. The book reveals the ultimate geographical Drake knowledge, written on location. It recounts the slave-trading with Hawkins off the west coast of Africa, stealing the gold and silver from the Spaniards in Panama and helping the Earl of Essex in Ireland.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1765154 in Books
• Published on: 2005-03-14
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 269 pages

Review
Michael Turner, from Burnham-on-Sea in Somerset, is the first Drake author to travel in person to almost every place the 16th Century explorer visited... Now his dramatic account has been put down on paper and made into a four-book series - called In Drake's Wake - which details the seafarer's voyages in sequence. (Katie Dawson, Western Morning News); 'Hundreds of people have written Drake biographies but this is unique because I travelled to all his places, hunting out the truth,' [said Turner]... (Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News)

From the Publisher
This is the first of a series of books by Michael Turner about the voyages of Sir Francis Drake. Michael has retraced Drake's footsteps to compile these fascinating books, which combine history with travelogue. Future titles in the series are:

- The World Voyage
- The Later Voyages
- Drake in England

From the Inside Flap
In Drakes Wake:

The Early Voyages
Francis Drake becomes rich and gains influence
1566-1577

Michael Turner

The first pictorial and topographical Drake biography. The only biography to describe every landfall, anchorage and to retrace fully Drake's footsteps in England and abroad.

Dedicated with the pinnacle of gratitude to the late Mr Raymond Aker, President of The Drake Navigators' Guild, Palo Alto, California