Full name: The Pirate Queen: Queen Elizabeth I, Her Pirate Adventurers, And The Dawn Of Empire

Author: Susan Ronald Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Biographies, Non Fiction, Historical fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780060820664 0060820667

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. Similar books: Elizabeth's Women by Tracy Borman Elizabeth of York by Alison Weir Elizabeth's Bedfellows by Anna Whitelock The Mistresses of Cliveden by Natalie Livingstone Elizabeth the Great by Elizabeth Jenkins Elizabeth by David Starkey Mary Tudor by H. F. M. Prescott After Elizabeth by Leanda de Lisle Death and the Virgin Queen by Chris Skidmore The Queen's Agent by John Cooper Queen Emma and the Vikings by Harriet O'Brien Inheritance by Robert Sackville-West The Life of Elizabeth I by Alison Weir The Sisters Who Would Be Queen by Leanda de Lisle A Great and Terrible King by Marc Morris Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans by Brian Kilmeade Victoria by Julia Baird Georgiana by Amanda Foreman Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley The Indifferent Stars Above by Daniel James Brown