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Sir John Hawkins by Harry Kelsey (2003, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherYale University Press

ISBN-100300180551

ISBN-139780300180558

eBay Product ID (ePID)166503164

Product Key Features

Number of Pages416 Pages

Publication NameSir John Hawkins

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2003

SubjectGeneral

TypeTextbook

AuthorHarry Kelsey

Subject AreaHistory

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight20.5 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal942.05/5/092 B

SynopsisAlthough his cousin Sir Francis Drake is more famous, Sir John Hawkins (1532-1595) was a more successful seaman and played a pivotal role in the history of England and the emergence of the global slave trade. Born into a family of wealthy pirates, Hawkins became fascinated by tales of the riches of foreign lands. Early in his career he led an illegal expedition in which he captured three hundred slaves in Sierra Leone and transported them to the West Indies. There he traded them for pearls, hides, and sugar--thus giving birth to the British slave trade. His voyages were so lucrative that Queen Elizabeth herself sponsored subsequent missions. Discouraged from his career as a pirate by a near-fatal encounter with angry Spanish troops, Hawkins spent much of his later life in England at the service of the queen. Although he committed treason, murder, and adultery at various points in his career, he was nonetheless knighted in 1588 for his role in defeating the Spanish Armada. In this riveting book, Harry Kelsey, biographer of Sir Francis Drake, tells the story of this extraordinary man.