Dimensions
153 x 234 x 30mm
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'