Author: Margaret Duncan KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Story of Sir Walter Raleigh
Author: Margaret Duncan KellyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Sir Walter Raleigh
Author: Raleigh TrevelyanPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1466865997
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1078
Book Description
An enthralling new biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking world Tall, dark, handsome, and damnably proud, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of history's most romantic characters. An explorer, soldier, courtier, pirate, and poet, Raleigh risked his life by trifling with the Virgin Queen's affections. To his enemies—and there were many—he was an arrogant liar and traitor, deserving of every one of his thirteen years in the Tower of London. Regardless of means, his accomplishments are legion: he founded the first American colony, gave the Irish the potato, and defeated Spain. He was also a brilliant operator in the shark pool of Elizabethan court politics, until he married a court beauty, without Elizabeth's permission, and later challenged her capricious successor, James I. Raleigh Trevelyan has traveled to each of the principal places where Raleigh adventured—Ireland, the Azores, Roanoke Islands, and the legendary El Dorado (Orinoco)—and uncovered new insights into Raleigh's extraordinary life. New information from the Spanish archives give a freshness and immediacy to this detailed and convincing portrait of one of the most compelling figures of the Elizabethan era.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Author: Mark NichollsPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144111209X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Author: Marc AronsonPublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395848272
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Recounts the adventurous life of Ralegh the English explorer who led many expeditions to the new world.
The History of the World
Author: Sir Walter RaleighPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
The Discovery of Guiana and the Journal of the Second Voyage Thereto
Author: Sir Walter RaleighPublisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Author: Earle Rice Jr.Publisher: Mitchell Lane
ISBN: 1545750041
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 75
Book Description
Sir Walter Raleigh streaked across the Elizabethan heavens like a bright, shining star. Often regarded as a true Renaissance manthat is, a man gifted with many talents and abilitieshe lived life to the fullest. Born to adventure, Raleigh parlayed a sharp mind and a yen for prestige and power into enough living for a dozen lesser men. As soldier, swashbuckler, writer, historian, poet, explorer, businessman, and more, he rose in favor at the court of Elizabeth IEngland's Good Queen Bessand made history as he wrote it.Raleigh fought courageously for England in France, Ireland, and elsewhere at sea. He founded the first American colony at Roanoke Island in the New World, introduced tobacco and the potato to Ireland, and searched for the golden city of El Dorado in South America. At the peak of his famesome say infamyhe knelt down as a commoner and arose as a knight.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Author: Tanya LarkinPublisher: PowerKids Press
ISBN: 9780823955589
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
A brief biography of the adventurous Englishman who explored America, attempted to establish a colony on Roanoke Island, and searched for gold in South America.
My Just Desire
Author: Anna R. BeerPublisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
Young, beautiful, and connected by blood to the most powerful families in England, Bess Throckmorton had as much influence over Queen Elizabeth I as any woman in the realm—but she risked everything to marry the most charismatic man of the day. The secret marriage between Bess and the Queen’s beloved Sir Walter Ralegh cost both of them their fortunes, their freedom, and very nearly their lives. Yet it was Bess, resilient, passionate, and politically shrewd, who would live to restore their name and reclaim her political influence. In this dazzling biography, Bess Ralegh finally emerges from her husband’s shadow to stand as a complex, commanding figure in her own right. Writing with grace and drama, Anna Beer brings Bess to life as a woman, a wife and mother, an intimate friend of poets and courtiers, and a skilled political infighter in Europe’s most powerful and most dangerous court. The only daughter of an ambitious aristocratic family, Bess was thrust at a tender age into the very epicenter of royal power when her parents secured her the position of Elizabeth’s Gentlewoman of the Privy Chamber. Bess proved to be a natural player on this stage of extravagant mythmaking and covert sexual politics, until she fell in love with the Queen’s Captain of the Guard, the handsome, virile, meteorically rising Ralegh. But their secret marriage, swiftly followed by the birth of their son, would have grave consequences for both of them. Brooking the Queen’s wrath and her husband’s refusal to acknowledge their marriage, Bess brilliantly stage-managed her social and political rehabilitation and emerged from prison as the leader of a brilliant, fast-living aristocratic set. She survived personal tragedy, the ruinous global voyages launched by her husband, and the vicious plots of high-placed enemies. Though Raleigh in the end fell afoul of court intrigue, Bess lived on into the reign of James I as a woman of hard-won wisdom and formidable power. With compelling historical insight, Anna Beer recreates here the vibrant pageant of Elizabethan England—the brilliant wit and vicious betrayals, the new discoveries and old rivalries, the violence and fierce sexuality of life at court. Peopled by poets and princes, spanning the reigns of two monarchs, moving between the palaces of London and the manor house outside the capital, My Just Desire is the portrait of a remarkable woman who lived at the center of an extraordinary time.
That Great Lucifer
Author: Margaret IrwinPublisher: Allison and Busby
ISBN: 9780749003272
Category : Adventure and adventurers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A vivid, detailed and historically accurate biography of that Elizabethan incarnate