Walter Bigges: 2 books

Contents: 1. An account of Egypt from The Histories, by Herodotus 2. Germany, by Tacitus 3. Sir Francis Drake Revived, by Philip Nichols 4. Sir Francis Drake's Famous Voyage Round the World, by Francis Pretty 5. Drake's Great Armada, by Captain Walter Bigges 6. Sir Humphrey Gilbert's Voyage to Newfoundland,...

Nearly five years elapsed between Drake's return from his Famous Voyage and the despatch of the formidable armament commemorated in the following pages. During the last of these years the march of events had been remarkably rapid. Gilbert, who had been empowered by Elizabeth, in the year of Frobisher's...