Sir Walter Raleigh

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wallace, Willard Mosher, 1911-2000 (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 1959.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Raleigh, Walter.
Raleigh, Walter > 1552-1618
Raleigh, Walter, > Sir, > approximately 1552-1618.
Raleigh, Walter, > Sir, > 1552?-1618.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Historical.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Fortune's tennis-ball"
  • Education and early years
  • Raleigh at court
  • Virginia
  • Shadows of the future
  • The armada and England's counterattack
  • Poet, patron, and "atheist"
  • Marriage, imprisonment and release
  • Years of disgrace
  • The first expedition to Guiana
  • Action at Cadiz
  • The islands voyage
  • The final rivalry with Essex
  • The twilight years of power
  • Arraignment for treason
  • The trial
  • The wait for execution
  • The early tower years
  • The later tower years
  • The tragic expedition
  • The king's welcome
  • The final victory.

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