wyszukanych pozycji: 6
Sir Francis Drake: The Queen`s Pirate
ISBN: 9780300084634 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 588 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. In this lively and engaging new biography, Harry Kelsey shatters the familiar image of Sir Francis Drake. The Drake of legend was a pious, brave, and just seaman who initiated the move to make England a great naval power and whose acts of piracy against his country's enemies earned him a knighthood for patriotism. Kelsey paints a different and far more interesting picture of Drake as an amoral privateer at least as interested in lining his pockets with Spanish booty as in forwarding the political goals of his country, a man who became a captain general of the English navy, but never waged...
In this lively and engaging new biography, Harry Kelsey shatters the familiar image of Sir Francis Drake. The Drake of legend was a pious, brave, and ...
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431,29 zł |
Philip of Spain, King of England: The Forgotten Sovereign
ISBN: 9781848857162 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The Spanish Armada conjures up images of age-old rivalries, bravery and treachery. However the same Spanish monarch who sent the Armada to invade England in 1588 was, just a few years previously, the King of England and husband of Mary Tudor. This book focuses on Philip II of Spain, England's forgotten sovereign.
The Spanish Armada conjures up images of age-old rivalries, bravery and treachery. However the same Spanish monarch who sent the Armada to invade Engl...
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259,35 zł |
Sir John Hawkins: Queen Elizabeth's Slave Trader
ISBN: 9780300180558 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Although his cousin Sir Francis Drake is more famous, Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) was a more successful seaman and played a pivotal role in the history of England and the emergence of the global slave trade. Born into a family of wealthy pirates, Hawkins became fascinated by tales of the riches of foreign lands. Early in his career he led an illegal expedition in which he captured three hundred slaves in Sierra Leone and transported them to the West Indies, where he traded them for pearls, hides, and sugar - thus giving birth to the British slave trade. His voyages were so lucrative that...
Although his cousin Sir Francis Drake is more famous, Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) was a more successful seaman and played a pivotal role in the histo...
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320,43 zł |
First Circumnavigators: Unsung Heroes of the Age of Discovery
ISBN: 9780300217780 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other illustrious leaders of these daring expeditions. Harry Kelsey's masterfully researched study is the first to concentrate on the hitherto anonymous sailors, slaves, adventurers, and soldiers who manned the ships. The author contends that these initial transglobal voyages occurred by chance, beginning with the launch of Magellan's armada in 1519, when the crews dispatched by the king of Spain to claim the Spice Islands in the western Pacific were...
Prior histories of the first Spanish mariners to circumnavigate the globe in the sixteenth century have focused on Ferdinand Magellan and the other il...
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406,65 zł |
Discovering Cabrillo
ISBN: 9780978588137 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. |
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53,96 zł |
Mission San Luis Rey - An Illustrated History
ISBN: 9780978588120 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Newly revised and updated for 2016, this book provides the first complete story of one of Californias most important historical and archaeological sites. It explores the story of the Mission and its people starting with the pre-European era, followed by the arrival of the Spanish and the start of the mission era, through secularization, decay, and then rebuilding. The book features over 70 historic photos, maps, and drawings, many previously unpublished.
This is the engaging story of what is arguably the finest mission church in California, retaining most of the features that it had when... Newly revised and updated for 2016, this book provides the first complete story of one of Californias most important historical and archaeological sit...
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73,67 zł |