num_pages: 415
description: Colorful and exciting, Sir Walter Ralegh became a favorite of Queen Elizabeth. This world-famous explorer conceived and organized the colonizing expeditions to America; introduced potatoes and tobacco to England, and ended up in the Tower, following his secret wedding to Bess Throckmorton where he was executed. Along with his more well-known exploits, this insightful study--the first based on an accurate chronology of Ralegh's own writings--offers startling disclosures about his other love affairs, an illegitimate child, and a failed suicide attempt.
language: English
title: Sir Walter Ralegh
titlecomplete: Sir Walter Ralegh
characters: Elizabeth I of England, Count Gondomar, Humphrey Gilbert, Thomas Hariot, Edward Coke, Henry Howard, 1st Earl of Northampton, Henry, Prince of Wales, Walter Raleigh, John Dee, Richard Grenville, James VI and I, Bess Throckmorton, Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland
genres: World History, Biography, History, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 37
publisher: Phoenix