Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for el Dorado

Name: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for el Dorado
Price: 3.44 USD
Availability: InStock
ISBN: 9780395848272

ISBN-10: 039584827X

ISBN-13: 9780395848272

Edition: 2000 (Teachers Edition, Instructors Manual, etc.)

Authors: Marc Aronson

List price: $21.99

30 day, 100% satisfaction guarantee!

Marketplace

4 new & used from $3.44

what's this?

Rush Rewards U
Members Receive:

You have reached 400 XP and carrot coins. That is the daily max!

Description:

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…

Book details

List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/17/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.00" long x 0.88" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Note to Readers


Map of Voyages to the New World


Cast of Characters


Prologue: Between Paradise and the Serpent's Mouth


The Golden Man


What Was El Dorado?


Rising



From Devon to the Wars


How England Became England


Family and Faith


The Most Grievous Calamity



The Queen's Problem


The Queen's Progress



Plantations


Gallant Captain



Fortune's Favor


The Lost Colony



Near to Heaven by Sea



A Land of Plenty


The First Colony: Ireland in America


An Ingenious People



Dreams and Mirages


An El Dorado in Ireland


Captains and Maids



The New Hope and the Terrible Year


The Armada



The Agony of John White


El Dorado



The Lie


All the World's a Stage


The Mother of Prizes


Beyond the Horizon



The Discovery of the Golden Kingdom



My Lord of Essex



Mischievous Matchivel



The Play of Treason


Prologue: The Royal Hunt



James's Double Game



Ralegh Takes Center Stage



Plays Within Plays



The Story of Our Days


Endgame


Proving a Myth


Sharp Medicine


Endnotes and Bibliography


Time Line


Index