In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire By Laurence Bergreen

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“FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” —New York Times Book Review, Editors' ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the acclaimed biographer of Magellan and Columbus reveals the singular adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history.“Entrancing . . . Very good indeed.” —Wall Street JournalBefore he was secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe, or was called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was perhaps the most wanted—and successful—pirate ever to sail. Nicknamed “El Draque” by the Spaniards who placed a bounty on his head, the notorious red-haired, hot-tempered Drake pillaged galleons laden with New World gold and silver, stealing a vast fortune for his queen—and himself. For Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from a third-rate island kingdom into a global imperial power.In 1580, sailing on Elizabeth’s covert orders, Drake became the first captain to circumnavigate the earth successfully. (Ferdinand Magellan had died in his attempt.) Part exploring expedition, part raiding mission, Drake’s audacious around-the-world journey in the Golden Hind reached Patagonia, the Pacific Coast of present-day California and Oregon, the Spice Islands, Java, and Africa. Almost a decade later, Elizabeth called upon Drake again. As the devil-may-care vice admiral of the English fleet, Drake dramatically defeated the once-invincible Spanish Armada, spurring the British Empire’s ascent and permanently wounding its greatest rival. The relationship between Drake and Elizabeth is the missing link in our understanding of the rise of the British Empire, and its importance has not been fully described or appreciated. Framed around Drake’s key voyages as a window into this crucial moment in British history, In Search of a Kingdom is a rousing adventure narrative entwining epic historical themes with intimate passions.

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How often chance owns destiny.Caesar throwing the dice when he crossed the Rubicon, “The die is cast,” perhaps he said and so it was, but who knew? The end of Republic, the rise of the Roman Empire follows. Could have gone the other way.Theodore Roosevelt, the one cavalry man riding a steed straight up Kettle Hill into howitzer fire, with a colorful bandana wrapped around his neck, as if to say, “Shoot me, just try it.” In that reckless throw of the dice, TR made himself into the mythical figure who would re-draft the American drama, creating a new kind of cultural, economic empire.And how about the 1588 conflict between the upstart English and the dominant Spanish Empire? According to Winston Churchill, among others, that victory of the English (not before then known as the British) birthed the British Empire. The defeat of the Spanish Armada says Laurence Bergreen was in many respects the child of an unlikely marriage (political, not conjugal - the story is not that racy) between Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake, the richest, most influential of all the pirates to command the seas.Luck does favor the prepared, but it was the weather gods perhaps as much as any other factor that granted the English victory, says Bergreen.Laurence Bergreen’s rousing success in telling the tale, “In Search of Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire,” on the other hand, falls more surely into the category of destiny than chance.Bergreen has written consistently well-chosen, well-researched, well-written histories and biographies on a range of subjects so broad that the unexpected must be obvious. Louis Armstrong, Al Capone, James Agee, Magellan’s ill-fated circumnavigation of the globe, Columbus, the search for life on Mars, among others. If there is a theme among Bergreen’s library of works, it must be a catholic interest in human exploration – looking in and wandering out. Each one of those that I have read has surprised, delighted, and edified.Wily, unlikely Queen Elizabeth, daughter of a woman, Anne Boleyn, who was beheaded by Anne’s husband, Elizabeth’s father, Henry VIII, balanced her life on a Catholic-Protestant fulcrum of angst and portentous fratricide. The British Isles and Europe would sway from war to war on that balance bar for centuries. In the low-born Drake she found a winning teammate, a robbing rascal who circumnavigated the globe stealing fortunes from and challenging the world’s then greatest and Most Catholic empire, Spain, all in the name of England. At the same time the protean Drake protected Elizabeth’s credible deniability.Shakespearean, indeed. Hard not to draw a line directly from Elizabeth’s August 1588 royal charge to her troops at Tilbury Camp - before the expected invasion (never to occur) by the Spanish - directly to Henry V’s St. Crispin’s Day speech written by the Elizabethan Bard in (perhaps) 1599.This new work of Laurence Bergreen pieces together what may be well known, but rarely so well masoned, the foundation stones of modern European history.

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