Sir Walter Raleigh
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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Sir Walter Raleigh

About this book

An enthralling biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking world.
 

"This massive work provides a cogent look at Elizabethan England as Trevelyan suspends Walter Raleigh's life in the tensions of the time. . . . This thorough and accomplished work is the new standard for Raleighana." — Booklist


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.

"Trevelyan's meticulously researched narrative will be informative for anyone looking to learn more about Elizabethan England and one of its most influential characters." — Publishers Weekly

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Information

Publisher
Henry Holt and Co.
Year
2024
eBook ISBN
9781466865990
Topic
History
Subtopic
Historical Biographies
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Contents
  5. Dedication
  6. List of illustrations
  7. List of maps
  8. A Preface
  9. Family and Childhood
  10. With the Huguenots: 1568–72
  11. Desirous of Honour: 1572–9
  12. Foothold at Court: 1580
  13. Ireland: 1580–81
  14. A Kind of Oracle: 1582–3
  15. Grandeur at Durham House: 1583
  16. The First Virginia Voyage: 1584
  17. The Roanoke Fort: 1585
  18. El Draque: 1586
  19. More Riches: 1586–7
  20. A Competition of Love: 1587
  21. Armada: 1588
  22. Two Shepherds Meet: 1589
  23. The Lost Colonists: 1590
  24. Grenville of the Revenge: 1591
  25. Scandal and the Tower: 1592
  26. The School of Night: 1593
  27. The Mind in Searching: 1594
  28. Arrival at Trinidad: 1595
  29. Guiana: 1595
  30. Drake’s Last Voyage: 1595
  31. No Forgiveness Yet: 1596
  32. Cadiz: 1596
  33. An Uneasy Triumvirate: 1597
  34. The Islands Voyage: 1597
  35. Crisis in Ireland: 1598
  36. Age Like Winter Weather: 1599
  37. Rage and Rebellion: 1600
  38. Machiavelli and Parliament: 1601
  39. Malice and Betrayal: 1602
  40. The Main and the Bye: 1603
  41. The Trial: 1603
  42. Waiting for the End: 1603
  43. Life in the Bloody Tower: 1604
  44. Friendship with the Prince: 1605–7
  45. The Great History: 1608–9
  46. O Eloquent, Just and Mighty Death!: 1610–12
  47. The Overbury Affair: 1613–15
  48. Release: 1616
  49. Aboard the Destiny: 1617
  50. Chronicle of Death: 1617
  51. ‘My Brains are Broken’: 1618
  52. ‘Piratas! Piratas!’: 1618
  53. Cold Walls Again: 1618
  54. Even Such Is Time: 1618
  55. Afterwards
  56. Appendix: Family Background
  57. Notes
  58. Acknowledgements
  59. Bibliography
  60. Credits for Illustrations
  61. Index
  62. Also by Raleigh Trevelyan
  63. Copyright