Sir Francis Drake: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

Sir Francis Drake, credited to Julian Corbett, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of Sir Francis Drake by Julian Corbett. Read in English by Pamela Nagami. In this short book, the British Naval historian, Julian Stafford Corbett, chronicles the adventurous career of Sir Francis Drake (1540-1596), the farmer's son who became Queen Elizabeth's most feared privateer and her most daring and resourceful naval officer. In his quest for the gold and silver of Spanish Peru, he rounded Cape Horn, losing men and ships in that "enchanted void, where wind and water, ice and darkness, seemed to make incessant war." After capturing the treasure ship from the astonished Spaniards, he circumnavigated the globe. As King Philip of Spain amassed his Armada, Drake demonstrated how a naval power, attacking shipping in port and at sea, could cripple the enemy's credit and commerce. Corbett writes of Drake that at "its fullest flood he stemmed the tide of Spanish Empire. It was no less a thing than that." (Pamela Nagami)

Recording facts

• Recording title: Sir Francis Drake
• Author credits: Julian Corbett
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 26
• Listed recording duration: 6:21:37

Catalogue topics

• California
• pirates
• Queen Elizabeth I
• spanish main
• privateers
• spanish armada
• sir francis drake
• slave trade

Opening tracks: first 24 of 26

1. 01 - Ch. 1: The Reformation Man, Pt. 1 — 14:16
2. 02 - Ch. 1: The Reformation Man, Pt. 2 — 12:13
3. 03 - Ch. 2: The Spanish Main, Pt. 1 — 12:12
4. 04 - Ch. 2: The Spanish Main, Pt. 2 — 16:59
5. 05 - Ch. 3: The Mule Trains, Pt. 1 — 12:28
6. 06 - Ch. 3: The Mule Trains, Pt. 2 — 15:03
7. 07 - Ch. 4: Gloriana and her Knights, Pt. 1 — 14:25
8. 08 - Ch. 4: Gloriana and her Knights, Pt. 2 — 12:32
9. 09 - Ch. 5: An Ocean Tragedy, Pt. 1 — 11:26
10. 10 - Ch. 5: An Ocean Tragedy, Pt. 2 — 15:15
11. 11 - Ch. 6: Waking the South Sea — 21:45
12. 12 - Ch. 7: The Great Mistake — 17:06
13. 13 - Ch. 8: The Dragon Loosed, Pt. 1 — 12:37
14. 14 - Ch. 8: The Dragon Loosed, Pt. 2 — 12:32
15. 15 - Ch. 9: Singeing the King of Spain's Beard, Pt. 1 — 18:29
16. 16 - Ch. 9: Singeing the King of Spain's Beard, Pt. 2 — 14:43
17. 17 - Ch. 10: In Quest of the Spanish Armada, Pt. 1 — 15:15
18. 18 - Ch. 10: In Quest of the Spanish Armada, Pt. 2 — 16:47
19. 19 - Ch. 11: The Battle of Gravelines, Pt. 1 — 18:01
20. 20 - Ch. 11: The Battle of Gravelines, Pt. 2 — 15:58
21. 21 - Ch. 11: The Battle of Gravelines, Pt. 3 — 10:50
22. 22 - Ch. 12: Drake's Armada, Pt. 1 — 14:05
23. 23 - Ch. 12: Drake's Armada, Pt. 2 — 17:07
24. 24 - Ch. 13: The Last Treasure Hunt, Pt. 1 — 11:02

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