Drake’s Last Voyage

Synopsis: With Drake’s reputation destroyed just eight years after defeating the Spanish Armada, the film retraces his final voyage and finds that, contrary to prevailing belief, it was a shrewdly planned venture thwarted by ill furtune. The truth lies with the Guayou Indians of Colombia, in the letters of the men who sailed with him and those who tried to stop him. It appears that Drake was a raider and a privateer who managed to tun expeditions of private plunder into statements of national pride for the English.
Series: Timewatch, Series
Language: English
Country: Great Britain
Medium: Video; Videocassette. Standard formats. col. 50 min.
Year of production: 1996
Availability: Sale; 2000 sale: £99.00 (+VAT +p&p)
Notes: Broadcast on BBC2 on 28/1/96 (400th anniversary of Drake’s burial at sea).
Subjects: History
Keywords: Drake, Francis; history of England; history of the 16th century

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Notes: The BBC Active company has now been absorbed within BBC Learning, a division of BBC Studios. It was originally a joint venture between BBC Worldwide and Pearson Education. Formerly known as ‘BBC Worldwide Learning Studies’ and before that as ‘Videos for Education & Training’

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