Sir Walter Raleigh / Raleigh Trevelyan
2002, 1st edition. London : Allen Lane. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #427583
ISBN: 071399326X
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.
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