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Kings, Queens, Sailors, Spies!: How Francis Drake's Secret Mission Claimed California and Fooled the Mapmakers for 200 Years

Kings, Queens, Sailors, Spies!: How Francis Drake's Secret Mission Claimed California and Fooled the Mapmakers for 200 Years - Paperback

by William Briggs
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Availability:In StockContributor:William Briggs, Briana Monaco (Cover Design by)Publish date:3/4/2026Pages:270
Language:EnglishPublisher:William BriggsISBN-13:9798234013989UPC:9798234013989Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Historical GeographyBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCNP3QVXKV

1579. Famed English privateer Francis Drake navigates the Pacific Northwest on a clandestine search for the fabled Northwest Passage, aided by Portuguese sea secret pilot Nuñez da Moreira. Left on the rugged California coast and sent on a perilous secret mission, Moreira survives only to face the dreaded Spanish Inquisition and, under torture, reveals secrets of Drake's voyage and that California is an island.

The Spanish government chooses to allow the geographical mistake for two hundred years to deny English claims to North America in a tense game of deception and conquest between empires in the New World. A documented reimagining of the first European explorations of California by sea and land, KINGS, QUEENS, SAILORS, SPIES! tells how the greatest cartographers of the Age of Discovery got it wrong.

Language:EnglishPublisher:William BriggsISBN-13:9798234013989UPC:9798234013989Book Category:HistoryBook Subcategory:United States, Historical GeographyBook Topic:State & Local, 19th CenturySize:8.50 x 5.50 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCNP3QVXKV
Briggs, William: - William Briggs is a retired California State University Dean of Communications and author of four previous volumes of California and U.S. History. He lives in Morgan Hill, CA.
Publisher: William Briggs

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William Briggs, Briana Monaco (Cover Design by)

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William Briggs

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