No lover of history can fail to recognize in the man who cast his cape gracefully across a puddle to protect the feet of his queen, the symbol of the Elizabethan Age. For Sir Walther Raleigh was more, much more than the courtier portrayed in the painting. He was truly the Elizabethan incarnate - soldier, sailor, captain of the Queen's guard, explorer and colonizer of the New World, poet, scientist, military engineer and literary patron.
In an age both cruel and romantic, the figure of Sir Walter Raleigh stands high above the contemporaries who eventually cast him down. He it was who devised the plan that brought about the destruction of the Armada, who sailed into Cadiz harbor to grapple with Philip of Spain's war fleet and who, before he laid his head on the block, called to the headsman to let him feel the edge of the axe.
Margaret Irwin was a noted authority on the Elizabethan Age. In this biography she brings all her skills as a historian and novelist in telling the story of this most remarkable Englishman.
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About the Author:
Margaret Irwin was a noted authority on the Elizabethan era. Allison & Busby has published "Young Bess," "Elizabeth and the Prince and Spain," and "Elizabeth, Captive Princess" to complete her classic trilogy about Elizabeth I as well as her superb biography of Sir Walter Raleigh, "That Great Lucifer."
Review:
'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.
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- PublisherAllison & Busby
- Publication date1998
- ISBN 10 0749003278
- ISBN 13 9780749003272
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages320
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