Listen free for 30 days

Listen with offer

Preview

£0.00 for first 30 days

Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Listen all you want to thousands of included audiobooks, Originals, celeb exclusives, and podcasts.
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

In the Days of Drake

By: J. S. Fletcher
Narrated by: John Rayburn
Try for £0.00

£7.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £16.99

Buy Now for £16.99

Pay using card ending in
By completing your purchase, you agree to Audible's Conditions of Use and authorise Audible to charge your designated card or any other card on file. Please see our Privacy Notice, Cookies Notice and Interest-based Ads Notice.

Summary

In the beginning of this story, the author told of what had inspired him. He wrote:

“In the whole history of the English people there is no period so absolutely heroic, so full of enthralling interest, as that in which the might of England made itself apparent by land and sea—the period which saw good Queen Bess mistress of English hearts and Englishmen and sovereign of the great beginnings which came to such a magnificent fruition under Victoria. That was indeed a golden time—an age of great venture and enterprise—a period wherein men’s hearts were set on personal valor and bravery—the day of great deeds and of courage most marvelous. To write down a catalogue of all the names that then were glorious, to make a list of all the daring deeds that were then done—this was an impossible task for the most painstaking of statisticians, the most conscientious of historians and chroniclers. Whether they stand high on the scroll of fame or lie forgotten in some quiet graveyard or in the vast oceans which they crossed, it was they, and they only, who laid the great foundations of the England and the United States of to-day.” Here is a chance to hear more about those sensational by-gone days.

Originally published in 1896.

Public Domain (P)2023 John D. Rayburn
activate_Holiday_promo_in_buybox_DT_T2

Listeners also enjoyed...

Marie cover art
The White Company cover art
The Star Rover cover art
The Wreck of the Golden Mary cover art
Around the World In 80 Days cover art
In the Reign of Terror cover art
The Black Arrow cover art
The Ebb-Tide cover art
When London Burned cover art
Two Horror Classics: Frankenstein and Dracula cover art
The Travel and Adventures of Little Baron Trump cover art
Salute to Adventurers cover art
Bartleby the Scrivener and Other Stories cover art
The Flight of the Heron cover art
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African cover art
Mutiny on the Bounty cover art

What listeners say about In the Days of Drake

Average customer ratings

Reviews - Please select the tabs below to change the source of reviews.