Sir Francis Drake's Raid on the Treasure Trains: Being the Memorable Relation of His Voyage to the West Indies in 1572, Faithfully Taken from Eye-Witness Reports by Members of the Expedition, and Enlarged by Drake's Own Hand (The Folio Society)

91, [1] pp. Map of The Spanish Main on endpapers, wood engravings by Geoffrey Wales. Edited, with an introduction, by Janet & John Hampden. Sir Francis Drake was the first Englishman to circumnavigate the globe (second overall). The voyage detailed here predates that journey by five years, and was his first major independent expedition, and involved an attempt to disrupt the Spanish trade route on the Isthmus of Panama for silver and gold plundered from Peru, followed by raids on galleons along the coast. Drake's lieutenant John Oxenham became the first Englishman to see the Pacific Ocean on this voyage.