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Published Nov 2018
416 pages
Genre: Biography/Memoir
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Who was the real Sir Walter Ralegh?
Sir Walter Ralegh's life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to Great Britain's 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?
"Starred Review. A penetrating, spirited recounting of a courtier's roiling life and times." - Kirkus
"Beer reminds readers of Ralegh's political rise, seafaring adventures, and fraught relationships with notable monarchs in an examination more literary than scholarly." - Publishers Weekly
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Anna Beer is a cultural historian, and the author of biographies of Milton, Sir Walter Ralegh and Lady Bess Ralegh. Her most recent book is Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music, also published by Oneworld. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and lives in Oxford, England.
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