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In Drake's Wake: The World Voyage
Michael Turner
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Paperback 298 pages Publication date 22 May 2006 |
Synopsis
Hundreds of books have been written on Drake but this one is unique. Michael Turner, a Sherlock Holmes of the sea, is the first Drake author to go beyond the archives to test all the primary sources in the field, on a worldwide scale: all at his own expense. The pictorial, topographical text is laced with research techniques and adventures in reaching all the Drake places by the author. This book reveals the ultimate geographical Drake knowledge, written on location by an intrepid adventurer with a Drake's-eye view. This book will be enjoyed by the Drake scholar and the armchair traveller alike.
Reviews
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Burnham and Highbridge Weekly News |
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...A Drake addict from Burnham has penned the definitive guide to the Admiral’s exploits |
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This England Magazine (Volume 39 Number 4 - Winter 2006) |
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There can be little left to know about Sir Francis Drake's seafaring exploits after the penning of two biographical volumes so thoroughly researched that they leave barely a tide unturned, a landfall untouched... |
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John Hudson of Western Daily Press |
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Michael Turner is an emotional man. He describes his new book as "the biggest single tangible achievement of my modest life"... His work does not go unchallenged in a tight-knit world of bitter rivalries, theories and counter-theories over the exact location of Drake's landing places, his attitude towards slave trading, his history as a privateer and the thorny question of whether or not his watery burial place in a lead coffin off Portobello in Panama should be pinpointed and explored… They are hugely readable, and are just as much travelogues as they are histories, as much about Michael Turner as they are about Francis Drake. |
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