Sir Walter Raleigh

by Willard Mosher Wallace

Book Overview

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 and devotee of science, musician and literary patron, historian and poet. A dashing and complex figure, often in advance of his times and rebellious against them,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691626251
• ISBN13: 9780691626253
• Release Date: December 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 358 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"