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.
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.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Author: Mark Nicholls
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 144111209X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 414
Book Description
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Publisher: 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 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 Story of Sir Walter Raleigh
Author: Margaret Duncan Kelly
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The History of the World
Author: Sir Walter Raleigh
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : History, Ancient
Languages : en
Pages : 1390
Book Description
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.
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: Nancy Ward
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778724247
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Examines the early life and explorations of Sir Walter Raleigh and Raleigh's legacy. When England's Queen Elizabeth I asked Sir Walter Raleigh to search for new lands to claim and colonize, her loyal subject pledged to found a colony in tribute to his Queen. This exciting recreation of the founding, loss, and reclamation of the Virginia colony in the late 1500s also describes Raleigh's unsuccessful search for the fabled wealthy kingdom of El Dorado, the deterioration of his relationship with the Queen, and his eventual execution.
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company
ISBN: 9780778724247
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Examines the early life and explorations of Sir Walter Raleigh and Raleigh's legacy. When England's Queen Elizabeth I asked Sir Walter Raleigh to search for new lands to claim and colonize, her loyal subject pledged to found a colony in tribute to his Queen. This exciting recreation of the founding, loss, and reclamation of the Virginia colony in the late 1500s also describes Raleigh's unsuccessful search for the fabled wealthy kingdom of El Dorado, the deterioration of his relationship with the Queen, and his eventual execution.
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
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 582
Book Description
That Great Lucifer
Author: Margaret Irwin
Publisher: 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
Publisher: 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
Sir Walter Raleigh
Author: Tanya Larkin
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.