He was an adventurer, circumnavigator, robber baron of the High Seas and Spain’s biggest nightmare: Francis Drake, pirate of Her Majesty Queen Elisabeth I., knighted in 1581. Alongside the legend, Mac P. Lorne also allows the man Francis Drake to come to life, the committed mayor and cheated husband, who was very shy apparently when it came to women. And he allows us to sail off across untamed, open oceans with him, freeing spies, conquering Santo Domingo and finally sinking the Spanish Armada into her watery grave with a new type of cannon. Hey-ho, pirates, ropes away and off over the horizon!
