The book of a domestic historian, a Marinist writer introduces the reader to the biography of the most famous English corsar and naval commander, the first English round-the-world navigator. The contemporary and favorite of Queen Elizabeth I Tudor, her Iron Pirate and the business partner, erected for his military feats in knights, Drake was able to rise from the lower steps of the hierarchy of the British society to the rank of admiral, played an outstanding role in the salvation of the Fatherland from the invasion of the Spanish unpleasant armada in 1588, became the national hero of England. The biography is written on the basis of a large number of foreign sources, which makes it possible not only to imagine the bright, contradictory image of the protagonist of the story, but also to plunge into the daily life of the Elizabeth sailors who challenged the largest empire of the Spanish Habsburgs, in which “the Sun never entered.”
Author
Gubarev Viktor Kimovich
Editor
Smirnova E.V.
Publisher
Young Guard, 2013
Series
The life of wonderful people
16+
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