Francis Drake Life of a Hero

"In his subtitle John Cummins calls Sir Francis Drake a 'hero,' but the man who emerges in this witty and irreverent biography falls rather short in that department....At times the story of these piratical adventures reads like a farce, and Cummins clearly delights in the pure humor of it....[Drake] left his widow a handsome bequest, and he left both his countrymen and his Spanish foes a brilliant legend. John Cummins does it full justice in this splendid book.Cummins, John is the author of 'Francis Drake Life of a Hero' with ISBN 9780312163655 and ISBN 0312163657.