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The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580

10 best books like The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580 (R. Samuel Bawlf): The Shadow of the Torturer, Weaveworld, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War, Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust, Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe, Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea, The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty, Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality, Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge, The Claw of the Conciliator

The Shadow of the Torturer
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0671540661
Wolfe has an almost legendary status amongst fellow authors; Gaiman called him 'a ferocious intellect', Swanwick said he's "the greatest writer in the English language alive today", and Disch called this series "a tetralogy of couth, intelligence, and suavity".

You can rarely trust the...
Weaveworld
AuthorClive Barker
ISBN0007117140
Clive Barker has made his mark on modern fiction by exposing all that is surreal and magical in the ordinary world --- and exploring the profound and overwhelming terror that results. With its volatile mix of the fantastical and the contemporary, the everyday and the otherworldly, Weaveworld is an...
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
AuthorNathaniel Philbrick
ISBN0670037605
HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN?

This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an extraordinary journey to understand the truth behind our most sacred national myth: the voyage of the Mayflower and the settlement of Plymouth Colony. As Philbrick reveals in this electrifying...
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
AuthorImmaculée Ilibagiza
ISBN1401908977
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly...
Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe
AuthorLaurence Bergreen
The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage

“Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York...
Two Years Before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea
AuthorRichard Henry Dana Jr.
ISBN1402179626
Two Years Before the Mast is a book by the American author Richard Henry Dana, Jr. written after a two-year sea voyage starting in 1834.

While at Harvard College, Dana had an attack of the measles, which affected his vision. Thinking it might help his sight, Dana, rather than going on a Grand Tour...
The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the Bounty
AuthorCaroline Alexander
ISBN0006532462
The bestselling author of The Endurance reveals the startling truth behind the legend of the Mutiny on the Bounty -- the most famous sea story of all time. More than two centuries have passed since Fletcher Christian mutinied against Lt. Bligh on a small armed transport vessel called Bounty. Why the...
Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality
AuthorChristopher Ryan
ISBN0061707803
Since Darwin's day, we've been told that sexual monogamy comes naturally to our species. Mainstream science--as well as religious and cultural institutions--has maintained that men and women evolved in families in which a man's possessions and protection were exchanged for a woman's fertility...
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge
AuthorTerence McKenna
ISBN0553371304
This book is trash.

I picked up this book because of an interest in drug culture and history. The premise sounds interesting enough: we stopped doing shrooms and got worse as a society.

I'll summarize the book in case the premise sounds interesting to you, so you can get the gist without...
The Claw of the Conciliator
AuthorGene Wolfe
ISBN0671416162
Severian is in possession of a gem considered to be "The Claw of the Conciliator", a powerful relic of the Master of Power, a legendary figure of mythic proportions. Armed with his sword, Terminus Est, and the Claw, Severian continues his journey to Thrax, the city of his exile. Bizarre apes, strange...
Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England
AuthorWilliam Cronon
ISBN0809016346
The book that launched environmental history now updated.

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize

In this landmark work of environmental history, William Cronon offers an original and profound explanation of the effects European colonists' sense of property and their pursuit of...
Stanley: The Impossible Life of Africa's Greatest Explorer
AuthorTim Jeal
ISBN0300126255
Henry Morton Stanley, so the tale goes, was a cruel imperialist who connived with King Leopold II of Belgium in horrific crimes against the people of the Congo. He also conducted the most legendary celebrity interview in history, opening with, “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” But these perceptions...
Fatal Passage: The Story of John Rae, the Arctic Hero Time Forgot
AuthorKen McGoogan
ISBN0786711566
John Rae's accomplishments, surpassing all nineteenth-century Arctic explorers, were worthy of honors and international fame. No explorer even approached Rae's prolific record: 1,776 miles surveyed of uncharted territory; 6,555 miles hiked on snowshoes; and 6,700 miles navigated in small...
The Floor of Heaven: A True Tale of the Last Frontier & the Yukon Gold Rush
AuthorHoward Blum
ISBN0307461726
New York Times bestselling author Howard Blum expertly weaves together three narratives to tell the true story of the 1897 Klondike Gold Rush.

It is the last decade of the 19th century. The Wild West has been tamed and its fierce, independent and often violent larger-than-life figures--gun-toting...
Witchborn
AuthorNicholas Bowling
ISBN1911077252
It's 1577. Queen Elizabeth I has imprisoned scheming Mary Queen of Scots, and Alyce's mother is burned at the stake for witchcraft. Alyce kills the witchfinder and flees to London - but the chase isn't over yet. As she discovers her own dark magic, powerful political forces are on her trail. She can't...
The Spirit, Vol. 1
AuthorDarwyn Cooke
ISBN1401214614
Nope. Not feeling this one.
Which is a shame, 'cause I really loved DC: The New Frontier, Vol. 1.
This thing just felt sort of awkward. Like maybe it was trying to be a sort of parodyish spoof of an old-timey comic...or something.

The whole thing was a collection of one-shot issues that...
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