Sir Walter Raleigh
Raleigh Trevelyan (Author)
Sir Walter Raleigh, renaissance man, was an accomplished explorer, soldier, writer of great skill, a courtier, and a sometimes ruthless administrator. The author has unearthed extensive material in Spanish archives in order to reveal here a portrait of Raleigh and of the age in which he lived.
Biographies
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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.