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Sir Walter Raleigh is in many respects the foremost example of an English renaissance man. An accomplished explorer and soldier, he was also a writer of great skill, a courtier, and a sometimes ruthless administrator. For the Victorians he represented the gentlemanly ideal of disinterested loyalty to the crown; a mixture of medieval chivalry and a very modern will to knowledge. More recent studies have focussed on his proto-imperialist attitudes and sought to reveal the tensions between Raleighand Elizabeth. In both readings Raleigh's singularity can be lost. Neither a public school educated civil servant, nor a fascist in doublet and hose, Trevelyan's Raleigh is a brilliantly realised portrait of the man and his age.
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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.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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ISBN 10: 071399326X
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Paperback. Condition: Good. "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. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR003799008
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Sir Walter Raleigh / Raleigh Trevelyan
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London : Allen Lane, 2002
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xviii, 621 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-599) and index. Contents; Family and childhood; with the Huguenots -- 1568-72; desirous of honour -- 1572-9; foothold at court -- 1580; Ireland -- 1580-81; a kind of oracle -- 1582-3; grandeur at Durham House -- 1583; the first Virginia voyage -- 1584; the Roanoke Fort -- 1585; El Draque -- 1586; more riches -- 1586-7; a competition of love -- 1587; armada -- 1588; two shepherds meet -- 1589; the lost colonists -- 1590; Grenville of the "Revenge" -- 1591; scandal and the tower -- 1592; the school of night -- 1593; the mind in searching -- 1584; arrival at Trinidad -- 1595; Guiana -- 1595; Drake's last voyage -- 1595; no forgiveness yet -- 1596; Cadiz -- 1596; an uneasy triumvirate -- 1597; the islands voyage -- 1597; crisis in Ireland -- 1598; age like winter weather -- 1599; rage and rebellion -- 1600. Machiavelli and parliament -- 1601; malice and betrayal -- 1602; the main and the bye -- 1603; the trial -- 1603; waiting for the end -- 1603; life in the Bloody Tower -- 1604; friendship with the princes -- 1605-7; the great "history" -- 1608-9; o eloquent, just and mighty death! -- 1610-12; the Overbury Affair -- 1613-1615; release -- 1616; aboard the "Destiny" -- 1617; chronicle of death -- 1617; "my brains are broken" -- 1618; "piratas! piratas! -- 1618; cold walls again -- 1618; even such is time -- 1618; afterwards. Appendix: family background. Subjects; Raleigh, Walter Sir 1552?-1618. Raleigh, Walter Sir approximately 1552-1618. Raleigh, Walter. 1500-1603. Explorers Great Britain ; Biography. Soldiers Great Britain ; Biography. Scholars Great Britain ; Biography. Courts and courtiers. Explorers. Scholars. Soldiers. Biography. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 427583
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1st edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xviii, 621 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 593-599) and index. Contents; Family and childhood; with the Huguenots -- 1568-72; desirous of honour -- 1572-9; foothold at court -- 1580; Ireland -- 1580-81; a kind of oracle -- 1582-3; grandeur at Durham House -- 1583; the first Virginia voyage -- 1584; the Roanoke Fort -- 1585; El Draque -- 1586; more riches -- 1586-7; a competition of love -- 1587; armada -- 1588; two shepherds meet -- 1589; the lost colonists -- 1590; Grenville of the "Revenge" -- 1591; scandal and the tower -- 1592; the school of night -- 1593; the mind in searching -- 1584; arrival at Trinidad -- 1595; Guiana -- 1595; Drake's last voyage -- 1595; no forgiveness yet -- 1596; Cadiz -- 1596; an uneasy triumvirate -- 1597; the islands voyage -- 1597; crisis in Ireland -- 1598; age like winter weather -- 1599; rage and rebellion -- 1600. Machiavelli and parliament -- 1601; malice and betrayal -- 1602; the main and the bye -- 1603; the trial -- 1603; waiting for the end -- 1603; life in the Bloody Tower -- 1604; friendship with the princes -- 1605-7; the great "history" -- 1608-9; o eloquent, just and mighty death! -- 1610-12; the Overbury Affair -- 1613-1615; release -- 1616; aboard the "Destiny" -- 1617; chronicle of death -- 1617; "my brains are broken" -- 1618; "piratas! piratas! -- 1618; cold walls again -- 1618; even such is time -- 1618; afterwards. Appendix: family background. Subjects; Raleigh, Walter Sir 1552?-1618. Raleigh, Walter Sir approximately 1552-1618. Raleigh, Walter. 1500-1603. Explorers Great Britain ; Biography. Soldiers Great Britain ; Biography. Scholars Great Britain ; Biography. Courts and courtiers. Explorers. Scholars. Soldiers. Biography. 1 Kg. Seller Inventory # 427583
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