and “Engaging and thorough . . . the best modern biography of the man. Why isn’t there a great movie about Sir Walter Raleigh? His life had everything. and “- Los Angeles TimesTall, dark, handsome, and damnably proud, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of history’s most romantic characters. He founded the first American colony, gave the Irish the potato, even trifled with the Virgin Queen’s affections. To his enemies, he was an arrogant liar, deserving of every one of his thirteen years in the Tower of London. Regardless of means, Raleigh’s accomplishments are he was the epitome of the English Renaissance man.Raleigh Trevelyan has traveled to each of the principal places where Raleigh adventured-Ireland, the Azores, Roanoke, and the Orinoco-finding new insights into Raleigh’s extraordinary life. His research gives a freshness and immediacy to this detailed, convincing portrait of one of the most compelling figures from the Elizabethan era.

Sir Walter Raleigh: Being a True and Vivid Account of the Life and Times of the Explorer, Soldier, Scholar, Poet, and Courtier–The Controversial Hero of the Elizabethan Age

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