Patriot or traitor
Subtitle: the life and death of Sir Walter Ralegh
By: Anna Beer
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 317
ISBN-13: 9781786074348
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Court and courtiers; Explorers; Biography; History
Description: "Sir Walter Ralegh's life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh's famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction life in all its richness. How could a man once the Queen's favourite find himself consigned to the Tower by her successor? Should his legacy be fame or infamy? Who was the real Sir Walter Ralegh?"--
Notes: "A Oneworld book"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-301) and index.