Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado2001 Sibert Medal Winner In this extraordinarily well researched and insightful biography, Marc Aronson explores the amazing accomplishments and dismal failures of one of the most flamboyant figures of the Elizabethan age. Best remembered for laying his coat in a muddy puddle so that Queen Elizabeth I could walk across it, Sir Walter Ralegh committed himself to pleasing his monarch and obtaining power in her court. He heroically risked his life in battle time and again, chasing after glory to win her favor. His notoriously ill-fated quest for the mythological golden city of El Dorado was perhaps his grandest attempt, but it also was his undoing, and Ralegh ultimately paid for his mistakes with his life. Despite his shortcomings, he was not only charismatic and brave, he was brilliant as well, and his contributions to the New World and to western culture as a whole were vast and enduring. MAPS, ENDNOTES and BIBLIOGRAPHY, TIMELINE, INDEX. |
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... Quinn , North America from Earliest Discovery to First Settlements : The Norse Voyages to 1612 ( New York : Harper ... Quinn , NA , page 325 . Barlowe on the land is quoted in Quinn , RBE , page 52 . Barlowe on the natives is from Quinn ...
... Quinn explains White's motivations in SF on page 254 . Quinn analyzes the White / Fernandez issue in SF and supplies the quotation on page 278. White suspected Fernandez of being an agent for the enemy who wanted to destroy the colony ...
Contents
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VII | 3 |
VIII | 6 |
IX | 11 |
X | 13 |
XI | 15 |
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XXXI | 90 |
XXXII | 102 |
XXXIV | 111 |
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