N.A.M Rodger is Anderson Fellow of the National Maritime Museum in London. ‘Into the Wind’ (Granta 61) is drawn from his chapter in the first volume of the Oxford History of the British Empire, which was published by the Oxford University Press in 1998.
In the days of Francis Drake, the Armada and Queen Elizabeth’s war with Spain, the...
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