Elizabeth's Sea Dogs
Title | Elizabeth's Sea Dogs PDF eBook |
Author | Hugh Bicheno |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | 401 |
Release | 2013-09-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 1844862143 |
Elizabeth's Sea Dogs investigates the rise and fall of a unique group of adventurers - men like Francis Drake, John Hawkins, Martin Frobisher and Walter Raleigh. Seen by the English as heroes but by the Spanish as pirates, they were expert seafarers and controversial characters. This riveting new account reveals them for what they were: extremely tough men in extremely hard times. They sailed, fought, looted and whored their way across the globe; in the process, they established a lasting British presence in the Americas, defeated the Spanish Armada, and made Queen Elizabeth I very wealthy, if seldom grateful.Author Hugh Bicheno sets the Sea Dogs in historical context and reveals their lives and exploits through diligent historical research incorporating contemporary testimony. With additional appendices, colour plates, the author's own maps and technical drawings, Elizabeth's Sea Dogs tells their vivid, extraordinary story as it was lived, in the author's trademark engaging style.
The Sea Dogs
Title | The Sea Dogs PDF eBook |
Author | Neville Williams |
Publisher | George Weidenfeld & Nicholson |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 1975 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
Here are the daring exploits of the Elizabethan sea dogs who established England as the foremost maritime and colonial power in the 1500s and thus bequeathed the nation a heritage that would endure for many generations.
Martin Frobisher
Title | Martin Frobisher PDF eBook |
Author | James McDermott |
Publisher | Yale University Press |
Total Pages | 548 |
Release | 2001-01-01 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 9780300083804 |
Details the life and exploits of the privateer who served Elizabeth I, battled against the Spanish Armada, and attempted to find the Northwest Passage.
Elizabeth's Wars
Title | Elizabeth's Wars PDF eBook |
Author | Paul E. J. Hammer |
Publisher | Red Globe Press |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003-06-27 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0333919432 |
The human and financial cost of war between 1544 and 1604 strained English government and society to their limits. Paul E. J. Hammer offers a new narrative of these wars which weaves together developments on land and sea. Combining original work and a synthesis of existing research, Hammer explores how the government of Elizabeth I overhauled English strategy and weapons to create forces capable of confronting the might of Habsburg Spain.
Elizabethan Sea-Dogs
Title | Elizabethan Sea-Dogs PDF eBook |
Author | William Wood |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 278 |
Release | 1920 |
Genre | |
ISBN |
On Land and Sea
Title | On Land and Sea PDF eBook |
Author | Lee A. Newsom |
Publisher | University of Alabama Press |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2004-05-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 081731315X |
During the vast stretches of early geologic time, the islands of the Caribbean archipelago separated from continental land masses, rose and sank many times, merged with and broke from other land masses, and then by the mid-Cenozoic period settled into the current pattern known today. By the time Native Americans arrived, the islands had developed complex, stable ecosystems. The actions these first colonists took on the landscape—timber clearing, cultivation, animal hunting and domestication, fishing and exploitation of reef species—affected fragile land and sea biotic communities in both beneficial and harmful ways. On Land and Sea examines the condition of biosystems on Caribbean islands at the time of colonization, human interactions with those systems through time, and the current state of biological resources in the West Indies. Drawing on a massive data set collected from long-term archaeological research, the study reconstructs past lifeways on these small tropical islands. The work presents a wide range of information, including types of fuel and construction timber used by inhabitants, cooking techniques for various shellfish, availability and use of medicinal and ritual plants, the effects on native plants and animals of cultivation and domestication, and diet and nutrition of native populations. The islands of the Caribbean basin continue to be actively excavated and studied in the quest to understand the earliest human inhabitants of the New World. This comprehensive work will ground current and future studies and will be valuable to archaeologists, anthropologists, botanists, ecologists, Caribbeanists, Latin American historians, and anyone studying similar island environments.
Elizabeth's Amarillo Adventure
Title | Elizabeth's Amarillo Adventure PDF eBook |
Author | Renae Brumbaugh |
Publisher | Barbour Publishing |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | Amarillo (Tex.) |
ISBN | 9781602602908 |
When her friend Megan calls about missing marbles, Elizabeth and McKenzie are on the case.