The Sea King: Sir Francis Drake and His Times

by Albert Marrin

Book Overview

By the end of the 16th century, the domination of the New World by Spain and Portugal was challenged by Sir Francis Drake, a superb navigator and commander, who set forth to establish a foothold for Queen Elizabeth in these new lands. Marrin smoothly navigates readers on a journey through his many adventures in this dramatic biography.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0689318871
• ISBN13: 9780689318870
• Release Date: May 1995
• Publisher: Atheneum Books
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 1.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.2" x 10.3"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

History for the Junior High!!

There is not a book of Albert Marrins that I have yet to read without falling in love all over with the Man! He does such a great job of making history real and relevant without boring any reader-junior high to adult! I wish he would complete a history of the US so that all textbooks could be banned and kids would learn to love history!

Book Review

Great summary of English and world history in the 1500s. Interesting eyewitness account of the early slave trade.