Drake's Raid on the Treasure Trains

This sixteenth-century narrative recounts Francis Drake's 1572 voyage to the Spanish Main, compiled from reports of men on the expedition and enlarged in Drake's name. The ships reach Nombre de Dios; a night attack on the town is broken by Drake's wound. After months of hiding and alliance with Cimarron fighters, the party crosses the Isthmus, sights the South Sea, and ambushes mule trains carrying Peruvian silver toward Nombre de Dios. The text is a contemporary relation of raid, hunger, and prize, not a full life of Drake and not a later imperial history.

Bound in dark blue canvas with a cover design in gold. Map endpapers printed white on green. Those with "Printed for Members Only" on the title page had no dust-jacket. Those with "Westminster, The Folio Society" on the title page had a turquoise dust-jacket printed with same design as on cover. The Presentation Volume for 1954.