Sir Walter Raleigh by Raleigh Trevelyan

Sir Walter Raleigh by Raleigh Trevelyan

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Zusammenfassung

Sir Walter Raleigh, renaissance man, was an accomplished explorer, soldier, writer of great skill, a courtier, and a sometimes ruthless administrator. The author has unearthed extensive material in Spanish archives in order to reveal here a portrait of Raleigh and of the age in which he lived.

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Sir Walter Raleigh by Raleigh Trevelyan

"You have lived like a star at which the world has gazed", said the judge at Sir Walter Raleigh's trial. "He was fortune's tennis ball", said another contemporary, to many others he was an arrogant liar. Regarded by the Spanish as the most hated of pirates, Raleigh had a thirst for wealth and power that was coupled with extraordinary creative energy. Soldier, explorer, parliamentarian, chemist, reputed atheist, patron of poets and himself a fine poet, Raleigh is the epitome of the English Renaissance man. A glittering courtier in the shark pool of Elizabethan politics, he could also be a ruthless administrator. For the generation of Republicans after his death on the scaffold, Raleigh was a hero; for the Victorians he represented the gentlemanly ideal of disinterested loyalty to the crown, while more recent studies have focused on his imperialist attitude and the tensions between himself and Elizabeth I. However he is seen, Raleigh cuts as controversial and tragic figure now as he did in his own times. This is the first major biography of Sir Walter Raleigh for many years. A brilliantly realized portrait of the man and his age, it benefits from the author's several, sometimes arduous, visits to places connected with Raleigh, including sites of the fabled El Dorado, and from extensive research in Spanish archives.
Raleigh Trevelyan is a distinguished writer whose previous works include Rome '44: The Battle for the Eternal City, The Golden Oriole, The Shadow of Vesuvius, and A Hermit Disclosed.
SKU Nicht verfügbar
ISBN 13 9780713993264
ISBN 10 071399326X
Titel Sir Walter Raleigh
Autor Raleigh Trevelyan
Buchzustand Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart Hardback
Verlag Penguin Books Ltd
Erscheinungsjahr 2002-11-07
Seitenanzahl 640
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