Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: The history of the world
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Author: Marc Aronson
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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 Raleigh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 444
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The History of the World
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
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Sir Walter Raleigh
Author: Raleigh Trevelyan
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
The Discovery of Guiana and the Journal of the Second Voyage Thereto
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 202
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Walter Ralegh's "History of the World" and the Historical Culture of the Late Renaissance
Author: Nicholas Popper
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226675009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations issued in the years that followed. Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh’s History as a touchstone in this lively exploration of the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. From Popper we learn why early modern Europeans ascribed heightened value to the study of the past and how scholars and statesmen began to see historical expertise as not just a foundation for political practice and theory, but as a means of advancing their power in the courts and councils of contemporary Europe. The rise of historical scholarship during this period encouraged the circulation of its methods to other disciplines, transforming Europe’s intellectual—and political—regimes. More than a mere study of Ralegh’s History of the World, Popper’s book reveals how the methods that historians devised to illuminate the past structured the dynamics of early modernity in Europe and England.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226675009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Imprisoned in the Tower of London after the death of Queen Elizabeth in 1603, Sir Walter Ralegh spent seven years producing his massive History of the World. Created with the aid of a library of more than five hundred books that he was allowed to keep in his quarters, this incredible work of English vernacular would become a best seller, with nearly twenty editions, abridgments, and continuations issued in the years that followed. Nicholas Popper uses Ralegh’s History as a touchstone in this lively exploration of the culture of history writing and historical thinking in the late Renaissance. From Popper we learn why early modern Europeans ascribed heightened value to the study of the past and how scholars and statesmen began to see historical expertise as not just a foundation for political practice and theory, but as a means of advancing their power in the courts and councils of contemporary Europe. The rise of historical scholarship during this period encouraged the circulation of its methods to other disciplines, transforming Europe’s intellectual—and political—regimes. More than a mere study of Ralegh’s History of the World, Popper’s book reveals how the methods that historians devised to illuminate the past structured the dynamics of early modernity in Europe and England.
Walter Ralegh
Author: Alan Gallay
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541645782
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way. In Walter Ralegh,Alan Gallay shows that, while Ralegh may be best known for founding the failed Roanoke colony, his historical importance vastly exceeds that enterprise. Inspired by the mystical religious philosophy of hermeticism, Ralegh led English attempts to colonize in North America, South America, and Ireland. He believed that the answer to English fears of national decline resided overseas -- and that colonialism could be achieved without conquest. Gallay reveals how Ralegh launched the English Empire and an era of colonization that shaped Western history for centuries after his death.
Publisher: Hachette UK
ISBN: 1541645782
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 576
Book Description
From a Bancroft Prize-winning historian, a biography of the famed poet, courtier, and colonizer, showing how he laid the foundations of the English Empire Sir Walter Ralegh was a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. She showered him with estates and political appointments. He envisioned her becoming empress of a universal empire. She gave him the opportunity to lead the way. In Walter Ralegh,Alan Gallay shows that, while Ralegh may be best known for founding the failed Roanoke colony, his historical importance vastly exceeds that enterprise. Inspired by the mystical religious philosophy of hermeticism, Ralegh led English attempts to colonize in North America, South America, and Ireland. He believed that the answer to English fears of national decline resided overseas -- and that colonialism could be achieved without conquest. Gallay reveals how Ralegh launched the English Empire and an era of colonization that shaped Western history for centuries after his death.
Sir Walter Ralegh in Ireland
Author: Sir John Pope-Hennessy
Publisher: London, K. Paul, Trench & Company
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Publisher: London, K. Paul, Trench & Company
ISBN:
Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt: Miscellaneous works
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 806
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