
THE SECRET VOYAGE OF SIR FRANCIS DRAKE 1577-1580
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Douglas & McIntyre, Vancouver, 2003, 1st/1st. ISBN 1-55054-977-4. Hard cover, 400 pages including Notes, Bibliography, Art Credits, and Index. Very good; sound binding with headbands, light edge wear. Dust jacket has light edge and cover wear, upper rear corner rubbed. Interior clean and unmarked; black & white maps and illustrations. ‘Piecing together the evidence in contemporary accounts and maps, Bawlf shows that Drake sailed all the way to Alaska in search of the western entrance to the fabled Northwest Passage, ... and then chose Vancouver Island to be the site of England’s first colony – thereby rewriting the history of exploration in North America.’ (from front flap)