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    The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire

    By Susan Ronald

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    “A highly colorful, swashbuckling read, one that will give you new respect for Britain’s first Elizabeth.” —Seattle Times

    An illuminating revisionist biography about Queen Elizabeth I and her merchant-adventurers who terrorized the seas, extended the Empire, and amassed great wealth for the throne.

    Extravagant, whimsical, and hot-tempered, Elizabeth was the epitome of power, both feared and admired by her enemies. Dubbed the "pirate queen" by the Vatican and Spain's Philip II, she employed a network of daring merchants, brazen adventurers, astronomer philosophers, and her stalwart Privy Council to anchor her throne—and in doing so, planted the seedlings of an empire that would ultimately cover two-fifths of the world.

    In The Pirate Queen, historian Susan Ronald offers a fresh look at Elizabeth I, relying on a wealth of historical sources and thousands of the queen's personal letters to tell the thrilling story of a visionary monarch and the swashbuckling mariners who terrorized the seas to amass great wealth for themselves and the Crown.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateOct 13, 2009
    ISBN9780061749452
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    Susan Ronald

    Born and raised in the United States, SUSAN RONALD is a British-American biographer and historian of eight books, including Conde Nast, The Ambassador, A Dangerous Woman, Hitler’s Art Thief, and Heretic Queen. She lives in rural England with her writer husband.

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    • 4/5
      A really good read! A terrific canter (with plenty of primary references) across the decades in which the astonishing merchant adventurer and pirate characters of Elizabethan England flourished. The book is written with that hugely welcome combination of pace, evidence and a well crafted 'story'. It has whet my appetite for more of the author's books, and more of the detail of this incredible period of English (and Spanish) history.