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Surveys the life and voyages of Sir Francis Drake and the expansion of the English naval fleet in the sixteenth century.

Uses maps of the period to show how Drake sailed all the way to Alaska in search of a western entrance to the fabled Northwest Passage, planning to establish a British colony in the New World.

A biography of the sixteenth-century English sea captain Sir Francis Drake, who is famous for his voyage around the world, his raids against the Spanish, and his defeat of the Spanish Armada.