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The result is the most immediate, detailed, and convincing portrait of one of the most compelling figures in English history."--BOOK JACKET.
This biography introduces young readers to the life of English soldier, explorer, knight, and poet Sir Walter Raleigh. Through engaging text, readers learn about Raleigh's childhood, family life, and education. The book also explains that Raleigh was a favorite of England's Queen Elizabeth I and the legend that he once laid his cloak over a puddle so the queen wouldn't muddy her shoes. Readers discover that Raleigh established colonies in North America, searched for the fabled El Dorado in South America, fought the Spanish Armada, and was imprisoned in the Tower of London. Raleigh's career as a writer is also covered, as is his aid to English poet Edmund Spenser publish The Faerie Queene. Full-color photos, a detailed map, an index, a timeline, discussion questions, bold glossary terms, and phonetics accompany easy-to-read text.
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Sir Walter Raleigh streaked across the Elizabeth heavens like a bright, shining star. Often regarded as a true Renaissance man-that is, a man gifted with many talents and abilities-he lived life to the fullest. Born to adventure, Raleigh parlayed a sharp mind and a yen for prestige and power into enough living for a dozen lesser men . As soldier, swashbuckler, writer, historian, poet, explorer, businessman, and more, he rose in favor at the court of Elizabeth I-England's Good Queen Bess-and made history as he wrote it. Raleigh fought courageously for England in France, Ireland, and elsewhere at sea. He founded the first American colony at Roanoke Island in the New World, introduced tobacco and the potato to Ireland, and searched for the golden city of El Dorado in South America. At the peak of his fame-some say infamy-he knelt down as a commoner and arose as a knight. When fortune failed him, and his star fizzled out, he showed brave men how to die. Book jacket.
An enthralling new biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking world 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.
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