[Slurm]

I've Been listening to the Sceptered Isle series about the rise of Early British Empire and the ill faited colonisation attempt at Roanoke.

The stories of the voyages of Drake, Raleigh, Frobisher and Hawkins are just amazing. Can anyone recommend a book on these early exporers?

Thanks!

James

[Dave Musgrove]

You might want to have a look at Giles Milton's Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World - out in pb now I think. Very nicely written and an enjoyable read. Wait a few years for some serious heavyweight history when a team of academics has finished editing The principal navigations, voiages, traffiques and discoveries of the English nation, made by sea or over-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, by Richard Hakluyt. Hakluyt was the man who stood on the docks in Elizabethan London waiting for the explorers to come home so he could get their stories for his edited version of their adventures. We've got a little news piece about the Hakluyt edition in the October issue of BBC History mag

[Slurm]

Good stuff, thanks for the info Dave.