The Elizabethans

by A.N. Wilson

Book Overview

A time of exceptional creativity, wealth creation, and political expansion, the Elizabethan age was also more remarkable than any other for the Technicolor personalities of its leading participants. Apart from the complex character of the Virgin Queen herself, A. N. Wilson's The Elizabethans follows the stories of Francis Drake, a privateer who not only defeated the Spanish Armada but also circumnavigated the globe with a drunken, mutinous crew and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374147442
• ISBN13: 9780374147440
• Release Date: April 2012
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.4" x 9.1"