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2005 Pocket Books trade paperback, Stephen Coote (Napoleon and the Hundred Days). Sir Francis Drake: pirate, explorer and Protestant zealot, a man princely in his bearing, heroic if sometimes foolhardy in his enterprise, a genius at once awe-inspiring and riddled with faults. He is the archetypal Elizabethan sea-dog, and Stephen Coote's brilliant new book rescues him from the dusty pages of history to breathe new life into one of the great maritime adventure stories. - Amazon
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"Fascinating... reads almost as a novel... presents a vivid picture of this legendary but flawed hero."
-- History Today on Drake
“Coote brings to life the Restoration and the sly lascivious king who personified it...Coote strikes gold.”
-- Kirkus Review (starred) on Royal Survivor: The Life of Charles II"
As Royal Survivor, Coote's entertaining gallop through [Charles II's] life, reminds us, Charles's talents would shine even today...."
--Washington Post Book world on Royal Survivor, Life of Charles II
"[Coote] understands that popular biography is supposed to tell a story" --Sunday Times (UK) on W.B. Yeats: A Life
"Coote brings off Pepys's turbulent life colorfully and with sympathy. ... No academic read, Samuel Pepys will appeal to a broad, and broad-minded, audience." --Publishers Weekly on Samuel Pepys: A Life
"This is a splendid and stirring story, vividly written." --Contemporary Review on A Play of Passion: The Life of Sir Walter Raleigh
About the Author
Stephen Coote was educated at Magdelene College, Cambridge and at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of several acclaimed biographies including lives of Charles II, W. B. Yeats, John Keats and, most recently, Samuel Pepys: according to the SUNDAY TELEGRAPH, 'A subtle and intelligent portrait, not just of the man, but of the volatile political milieu in which he moved.'
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