The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire
By Susan Ronald
3.5/5
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
“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.
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.
Read more from Susan Ronald
The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, and the Dawn of Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ambassador: Joseph P. Kennedy at the Court of St. James's 1938-1940 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Dangerous Woman: American Beauty, Noted Philanthropist, Nazi Collaborator - The Life of Florence Gould Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Heretic Queen: Queen Elizabeth I and the Wars of Religion Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Sancy Blood Diamond: Power, Greed, and the Cursed History of One of the World's Most Coveted Gems Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
Related to The Pirate Queen
Related ebooks
The Scandal of George III's Court Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Elizabethans Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elizabeth I: Collected Works Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Margaret Tudor, Queen of Scots: The Life of King Henry VIII’s Sister Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5To Catch A King: Charles II's Great Escape Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stephen and Matilda's Civil War: Cousins of Anarchy Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/51066 and Before All That: The Battle of Hastings, Anglo-Saxon and Norman England Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Edward VII: The Last Victorian King Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Founder, Fighter, Saxon Queen: Aethelflaed, Lady of the Mercians Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5So High a Blood: The Story of Margaret Douglas, the Tudor That Time Forgot Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Elizabeth I: Virgin Queen? Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lost Heirs of the Medieval Crown: The Kings and Queens Who Never Were Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Tudors Versus Stewarts: The Fatal Inheritance of Mary, Queen of Scots Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Agnes Strickland's Queens of England, Volume 1 of 3 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsScourge of Henry VIII: The Life of Marie de Guise Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Henry VIII: The Life and Rule of England's Nero Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crown and Country: A History of England through the Monarchy Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Women of the Wars of the Roses: Elizabeth Woodville, Margaret Beaufort & Elizabeth of York Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tudors: The Kings and Queens of England's Golden Age Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5William of Orange and the Fight for the Crown of England: The Glorious Revolution Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHenry IV: The Righteous King Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5George IV: The Rebel Who Would Be King Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Henry VIII in 100 Objects: The Tyrant King Who Had Six Wives Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Henry V: The Warrior King of 1415 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Stuart Courts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPatriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Kings of Georgian Britain Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Red Prince: The Life of John of Gaunt, the Duke of Lancaster Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Tudor Brandons: Mary and Charles - Henry VIII's Nearest & Dearest Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
History For You
The Secret History of the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Richest Man in Babylon: The most inspiring book on wealth ever written Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whore Stories: A Revealing History of the World's Oldest Profession Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Becoming Cliterate: Why Orgasm Equality Matters--And How to Get It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5And Yet...: Essays Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Oregon Trail: A New American Journey Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Lessons of History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wise as Fu*k: Simple Truths to Guide You Through the Sh*tstorms of Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Reviews for The Pirate Queen
27 ratings1 review
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A 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.