Hugh de Sélincourt sets out to make Walter Ralegh live again for the general reader: Devon boyhood, soldiering, favour at Elizabeth’s court, the Virginia ventures, the Cadiz expedition and the long decline under King James. Drawing freely on dramatists, poets and memoirists, he presents Ralegh as the embodiment of England’s great age outliving it.
A vivid, sympathetic biography for readers who want the man as much as the record. Download the free EPUB.