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Sir Walter Raleigh /
Sir Walter Raleigh was truly the Renaissance man of Elizabethan England: soldier and diplomat serving in the wars between Spain and England, courtier and Captain of the Queen's Guard in Elizabeth's flamboyant court, explorer of a New World and colonizer of Virginia, member of Parliament an...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Princeton Legacy Library ;
2354 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Acknowledgment
- Contents
- Illustration
- 1. Fortune's Tennis-Bali
- 2. Education and Early Years
- 3. Raleigh at Court
- 4. Virginia
- 5. Shadows of the Future
- 6. The Armada and England's Counterattack
- 7. Poet, Patron, and "Atheist"
- 8. Marriage, Imprisonment, and Release
- 9. Years of Disgrace
- 10. The First Expedition to Guiana
- 11. Action at Cadiz
- 12. The Islands Voyage
- 13. The Final Rivalry with Essex
- 14. The Twilight Years of Power
- 15. Arraignment for Treason
- 16. The Trial
- 17. The Wait for Execution
- 18. The Early Tower Years
- 19. The Later Tower Years
- 20. The Tragic Expedition
- 21. The King's Welcome
- 22. The Final Victory
- Appendix: Raleigh's Name
- Bibliography
- Index