Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One Auxilio Divino
- Chapter Two ‘Sir Francis Drake Revived’
- Chapter Three ‘Behold the warrior dwindled to a beau’
- Chapter Four ‘Homage to Britannia’
- Chapter Five ‘Who the New World Bade British Thunders Shake?’
- Chapter Six ‘The Prose Epic of England’
- Chapter Seven ‘Mould him in bronze’
- Chapter Eight ‘Gun to Gun he'll Challenge us’
- Chapter Nine ‘A pirate, and a good one’
- Chapter Ten The Future
- Bibliography
- Index
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter One Auxilio Divino
- Chapter Two ‘Sir Francis Drake Revived’
- Chapter Three ‘Behold the warrior dwindled to a beau’
- Chapter Four ‘Homage to Britannia’
- Chapter Five ‘Who the New World Bade British Thunders Shake?’
- Chapter Six ‘The Prose Epic of England’
- Chapter Seven ‘Mould him in bronze’
- Chapter Eight ‘Gun to Gun he'll Challenge us’
- Chapter Nine ‘A pirate, and a good one’
- Chapter Ten The Future
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Sir Francis DrakeThe Construction of a Hero, pp. 192 - 200Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009