[Drake, Francis]: [Pretty, Francis]:

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LE VOYAGE DE L'ILLUSTRE SEIGNEUR ET CHEVALIER FRANÇOIS DRACH ADMIRAL D'ANGLETERRE, À L'ENTOUR DU MONDE. First augmented French edition, adding considerable material to the first French edition of 1613. This is the first separate appearance of this account of Drake's famous voyage of 1577-80, the second circumnavigation and the first English voyage around the world, translated by F. de Louvencourt, Sieur de Vauchelles, and enlarged from his 1613 edition of Part I only. The text is traditionally attributed to Francis Pretty, though it is more likely that the information was compiled by Richard Hakluyt himself from three or more sources (see Wagner's Drake's Voyage). The account of Drake's voyage first appeared in Hakluyt's Principall Navigations... and was subsequently translated into French (the 1613 edition). Wagner notes that the additional information found in the present edition but not in Hakluyt is "small but significant" and calls this "the most complete translation of all." The second part includes material on the East Indies, the Middle East and Persia, and Africa. "The voyage of Drake extends only to page 82, the second part being devoted to an account of countries which the great English navigator never saw" - Wagner.Drake's circumnavigation, the second successful voyage around the world (the first being Magellan's expedition), extended British maritime power into the Pacific for the first time, threatened the Spanish empire in America to its heart, opened a new age

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