The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Samuel Bawlf

The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake by Samuel Bawlf

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.

Samuel Bawlf was a politician and author from Canada. He was the youngest member of the Victoria City Council when he was elected in 1972. He was a member of the Social Credit Party and the minister of conservation and recreation in British Columbia's Legislative Assembly. He was the author of Sir Francis Drake's Secret Journey, which was released in 2003. In 2016, he passed away.

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ISBN 13	9780142004593
ISBN 10	0142004596
Title	The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake
Author	Samuel Bawlf
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Penguin Putnam Inc
Year published	2004-05-25
Number of pages	416
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