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DRAKE: CAPTAIN OF THE SOUTH SEAS
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Author: Grover S McLeod
Publisher: Manchester Press
Year published: 1994
Pagination: ix + 474pp, ills, ep maps
Condition: vg in edge-worn dw
An account of Drake's great circumnavigation of the globe. Includes the break with his partner, Doughty, in Patagonia, and Doughty's trial by a jury. This established the principle that the commander of a ship at sea has almost absolute power. Also covers the plundering of the the west coast of South America and the taking of the Caca Fuego.