Author: DAWLISH, PETER
Title: Young Drake of Devon
Description: London, Oxford University Press. 1954, First. Hard Cover, 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. Silver title on blue cloth boards which are clean and unmarked with just a touch of light wear to spine head and tail. Internally there are indentaions left from erased pencilled name to front endpaper, light foxing to closed edges else clean, tight and unmarked. Dustjacket is complete with wear and chipping to top and bottom, particulary to spine. Coloured frontispiece. An imaginative reconstruction, based on the few available facts, of Sir Francis Drake's young life. It tells how the young Drake, whose home was a derelict man of war lying in Gillingham shipyard, first went to sea on board a small trading vessel and how it's captain played an active part in the movement to restore Protestantism to England and conjectures that it was during these voyages that his lifelong hatred of the Spanish was bred. B2D. Very Good/Good.

Keywords: Sir Francis Drake, Gillingham Shipyard, Protestantism


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