First Queen Elizabeth (Great Rulers)

By L Du Garde Peach

Book Overview

Book by Peach, L Du Garde This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0721401635
• ISBN13: 9780721401638
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: Random House Inc
• Length: 52 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.4"

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Great Queen Bess

Ladybird history books are social history at it's best, from; I would estimate ages 8 to 14 for school use of simply to enjoy. They bring history alive for children, and are filled with fascinating information. As well as bringing alive an animated, exciting past, they also show how events of the past, are with us today, in so many fascinating ways.The Story of the First Queen Elizabeth is a fascinating narrative of the forty five year reign of that great monarch Starting with her early years at the mercy of her sister, the tyrannical Catholic Queen Mary, it mentions, the intrigues of the reign of the determined and intelligent Elizabeth. Her reign was the age of great adventure, when English sailors ranged the seas of the world and laid the foundations of what was to become the British Empire. It was Elizabeth who rallied England to resist the invasion of the Spanish Armada against England with her famous speech: " I think foul scorn that Spain, or any Prince of Europe, should dare to invade the borders of my realm."It was also what was known as the Golden Age of English Literature. The time in which Spenser, Marlowe and particularly William Shakespeare penned the great works.This is a brief outline of that time.