That Great Lucifer: Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh by Margaret Irwin
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That Great Lucifer
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A biography of Sir Walter Ralegh - soldier, sailor, Captain of the Queen's guard, explorer, poet, scientist and literary patron. It was Ralegh who devised the plan that brought about the destruction of the Armada, and who sailed into Cadiz harbour to grapple with the King of Spain's warships.
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That Great Lucifer Reviews
'IK doubt if anyone could create more perfectly than Miss Irwin the illusion of a vanished age' The Observer - 'The book is not simply a good biography ... but a vision' Times Literary Supplement - 'Margaret Irwin's books have an unsurpassed colour and gusto' PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON - 'To her brilliant sense of period, Miss Irwin adds an artist's view of relativity' Country Life.
About Margaret Irwin
Margaret Irwin, was a noted authority on the Elizabethan Age. Her novels about Elizabeth I (Young Bess, Elizabeth Captive Princess and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain - all to be re-issued by Allison & Busby) vividly ecreate that great age of English history. Margaret Irwin dided in 1967.
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GOR002180487
9780749003272
0749003278
That Great Lucifer: Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh by Margaret Irwin
Used - Good
Paperback
Allison & Busby
19980620
320
N/A
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