W. Stebbing’s biography of Sir Walter Ralegh traces the remarkable career of one of Elizabethan England’s most dazzling and ill-fated figures. Courtier, explorer, poet, coloniser, and ultimately prisoner in the Tower, Ralegh embodied the ambitions and contradictions of the Elizabethan age. Stebbing draws on a wide range of primary sources to reconstruct both the public exploits and the inner life of his subject.
From the founding of the Virginia colony to his final disastrous Orinoco expedition under James I, this biography covers the full arc of Ralegh’s extraordinary life. Download the free EPUB for an authoritative account of one of British history’s most compelling individuals.