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Genre/Form: | Biography Biographies History |
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Named Person: | Walter Raleigh, Sir; Walter Raleigh, Sir |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Raleigh Trevelyan |
ISBN: | 9780140283211 0140283218 |
OCLC Number: | 968787111 |
Description: | xviii, 621 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 20 cm |
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 - 1594; 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 trail - 1603; waiting for the end - 1603; life in the Bloody Tower - 1604; friendship with the Prince - 1605-7; the great history - 1608-9; O eloquent, just and mighty death! - 1610-12; the Overbury affair - 1613-15; 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. |
Responsibility: | Raleigh Trevelyan. |
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