The Golden Hind - An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose and Poetry - revised edition - 1956

The Golden Hind - An Anthology of Elizabethan Prose and Poetry - revised edition - 1956. This book is in good condition. There are some markings and notes written on some pages. Some wear on the cover edges. Tight spine and pages.

"Our title, taken from the name of Drake's ship, seems to us an appropriate symbol of the riches the Elizabethans found in the new world and in the English language and of the spirit of freedom and defiance of tyranny which is the greatest link between their age and ours." From the preface to the first edition.

Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for her privateering circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as Pelican, but was renamed by Drake mid-voyage in 1578, in honour of his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a golden 'hind' (a female red deer). Hatton was one of the principal sponsors of Drake's world voyage. One full-sized, still sailable reconstruction containing original pieces of the galleon exists in London, on the south bank of the Thames.

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