The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake

Samuel Bawlf was a Canadian politican and author. In 1972 he was the youngest person ever elected to the Victoria City Council. He served on the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia, as a member of the Social Credit Party, and as the minister of conservation and recreation. He was the author of The Secret Journey of Sir Francis Drake, published in 2003. He died in 2016.

The Secret Voyage of Sir Francis Drake: 1577-1580Acknowledgments
Note to the Reader
Prologue
Part One: The Quest for Riches
1. San Juan d'Ulúa
2. Letters of Marque
3. Drake's Private War
4. A Passage to Cathay
5. The South Sea Project


Part Two: Round About the Whole Globe of the Earth
6. The Preparations
7. A Troubled Beginning
8. The Coast of Barbary
9. Land of Giants
10. Island of Blood
11. Into the South Sea
12. Chile
13. Peru
14. New Spain
15. News from the South Sea
16. The Moluccas
17. Homeward


Part Three: Celebrity amid Secrecy
18. "A Very Short Way"
19. "Islands of Good Land"
20. "Seen and Corrected by Sir Drake"
21. "That Posterity Be Not Deprived"
22. A Forgotten Secret


Part Four: The Northern Voyage, April to September 1579
A Record of Discovery
23. Drake's Strait of Anian
24. Nova Albion
25. Point of Position
26. A Sorrowful Farewell
Postscript: An Old Sailor's Yarn


Notes
Bibliography
Art Credits
Index