Drake : The Life and Legend of an Elizabethan Hero - Hardcover

Coote, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0743220072 ISBN 13: 9780743220071

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2003

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Book by Coote, Stephen

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From the Inside Flap:

"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.'

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0743220072
• ISBN 13: 9780743220071
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 337