cover image Sir Francis Drake

Sir Francis Drake

John Peter Sugden. Simon & Schuster, $15 (0pp) ISBN 978-0-671-75863-9

No armchair admiral will want to miss this lively portrait of a man who circumnavigated the globe, became the naval nemesis of Spain's Philip II and personified Elizabethan England's coming of age as a sea power. Illustrated. (May)