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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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This island of Trinidad hath the form of a sheephook, and is but narrow; the north part is very mountainous; the soil is very excellent, and will bear sugar, ginger, or any other commodity that the Indies yield. It hath store of deer, wild porks, fruit, fish, and fowl; it hath also for bread sufficient maize, cassavi, and of those roots and fruits which are common everywhere in the West Indies. ... Read more

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1906 work with plentiful illustrations."MORE than three hundred years ago, a great queen, named Elizabeth, ruled over England, but the people loved her so much that they called her "Good Queen Bess. " At this time England did not own any lands beyond the seas. The Spaniards said that all the land beyond the Atlantic Ocean belonged to Spain, because the Spanish sailors had been the first to discover America. Every year they sent many ships to this New World to bring back to Spain the rich treasures they found there. This made the English sailors very jealous. They, too, wanted to sail across the sea, and to bring back gold and silver. " ... Read more

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The King’s Quinto is told through the voice of John Talbot, a real life servant to Sir Walter Raleigh. After Sir Walter Raleigh’s arrest in 1603, after the death of Queen Elizabeth I, Raleigh is accused of involvement in the Spanish Bye and Main Plot which was a plot to deprive King James I of his throne and an attempt to place Lady Arabella Stuart on the throne. Raleigh is accused of trying to cause the kidnap of King James I and to make him tolerate the Roman Catholic religion. 16 people were involved in the Spanish Bye and Main Plot; several were hung drawn and quartered including two priests, Watson and Clark. Raleigh was found guilty of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Tower of London, Bloody Tower from 1603 until 1617. Raleigh was released from prison in 1617 in order that he might lead an expedition to Guiana in search of gold, which he said he had located during his earlier expedition to Guiana in 1596. Raleigh returned without the gold. Raleigh was executed on 29th October 1618. ... Read more

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Reviews of The King's Quinto the Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)
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By
The Duke of Northumberland
Alnwick Castle
4th June, 2004

The King's Quinto: The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

I thoroughly enjoyed it and found it very `readable', well researched and interesting.The personalities came to life in a realistic manner adding flesh and blood to the skeleton of a complex historical period.By mixing the real letters and documents of the day with John Talbot's vivid `commentary', academic interest is softened and brightened, helping the reader to understand exactly what is going on.

The book, of course, has particular significance to me as my ancestor, the IX Earl of Northumberland, like Raleigh, spent many years imprisoned in the Tower of London and might well have suffered the same fate.His academic interests, luxurious apartments and friendship with Raleigh and other inmates, made this period of his life bearable if not welcome, as you clearly describe.

Congratulations for writing a first class book, which deserves success.

Duke of Northumberland

This very readable book chronicles the life and political career of one of Tudor England's most colourful characters.Miss O'Sullivan explores the political situation in England and in Europe, which formed a background to Raleigh's life.She also quotes directly from contemporary documents and looks at the realities of day-to-day life in Tudor times, the coinage, the food and personal hygiene.Told through the voice of Raleigh's personal servant, John Talbot, this book is an interesting addition to the considerable literature on a fascinating player at the Court of Queen Elizabeth.

Mr. John Wingfield Digby


Review by Reverend Canon E J Woods
Of
Sherborne Abbey, Dorset
2004


No-one can live in Sherborne for long without becoming aware of Walter Raleigh. He has not only entered into the mythology of England's heroes; his presence broods over the New Castle and, in the Abbey, St Katherine's Chapel, where he had his pew.

For many of us, the standard work remains Robert Lacey's Sir Walter Raleigh (1975), perhaps fleshed out by Sherborne's own Reg Wood in his historical novel Gold was his star (1991). But in the last year or two there has been a new burst of interest in Raleigh, and a number of books about him and his wife.

Amongst these, one of the most interesting is Barbara O'Sullivan's The King's Quinto: The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) . It lacks an index, so you can't just look up references to Sherborne. But it is packed full of intriguing cameos, long extracts from contemporary documents and other insights that you just won't find in the standard biographies. I have to confess I had always assumed that Raleigh's 1603 trial was in London. It wasn't: it was in Winchester. And Ms O'Sullivan's account of it from a 1677 pamphlet in the Hampshire Record Office makes gripping reading.

Beg, borrow or steal this volume. Better still, buy it. You will get more Raleigh and less author than in any other book I know. Ms O'Sullivan believes in letting her principal character speak for himself.I feel I know him a great deal better.

Reviews of The King's Quinto the Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh
Review
By
The Duke of Northumberland
Alnwick Castle
4th June, 2004

The King's Quinto: The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

I thoroughly enjoyed it and found it very `readable', well researched and interesting.The personalities came to life in a realistic manner adding flesh and blood to the skeleton of a complex historical period.By mixing the real letters and documents of the day with John Talbot's vivid `commentary', academic interest is softened and brightened, helping the reader to understand exactly what is going on.

The book, of course, has particular significance to me as my ancestor, the IX Earl of Northumberland, like Raleigh, spent many years imprisoned in the Tower of London and might well have suffered the same fate.His academic interests, luxurious apartments and friendship with Raleigh and other inmates, made this period of his life bearable if not welcome, as you clearly describe.

Congratulations for writing a first class book, which deserves success.

Duke of Northumberland

This very readable book chronicles the life and political career of one of Tudor England's most colourful characters.Miss O'Sullivan explores the political situation in England and in Europe, which formed a background to Raleigh's life.She also quotes directly from contemporary documents and looks at the realities of day-to-day life in Tudor times, the coinage, the food and personal hygiene.Told through the voice of Raleigh's personal servant, John Talbot, this book is an interesting addition to the considerable literature on a fascinating player at the Court of Queen Elizabeth.

Mr. John Wingfield Digby


Review by Reverend Canon E J Woods
Of
Sherborne Abbey, Dorset
2004


No-one can live in Sherborne for long without becoming aware of Walter Raleigh. He has not only entered into the mythology of England's heroes; his presence broods over the New Castle and, in the Abbey, St Katherine's Chapel, where he had his pew.

For many of us, the standard work remains Robert Lacey's Sir Walter Raleigh (1975), perhaps fleshed out by Sherborne's own Reg Wood in his historical novel Gold was his star (1991). But in the last year or two there has been a new burst of interest in Raleigh, and a number of books about him and his wife.

Amongst these, one of the most interesting is Barbara O'Sullivan's The King's Quinto: The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552-1618) . It lacks an index, so you can't just look up references to Sherborne. But it is packed full of intriguing cameos, long extracts from contemporary documents and other insights that you just won't find in the standard biographies. I have to confess I had always assumed that Raleigh's 1603 trial was in London. It wasn't: it was in Winchester. And Ms O'Sullivan's account of it from a 1677 pamphlet in the Hampshire Record Office makes gripping reading.

Beg, borrow or steal this volume. Better still, buy it. You will get more Raleigh and less author than in any other book I know. Ms O'Sullivan believes in letting her principal character speak for himself.I feel I know him a great deal better.

The King's Quinto - The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh
The King's Quinto (The Life and Times of Sir Walter Raleigh - 1552-1618) is in my opinion a compelling read in so much as, like the author C.S. Forrester with his technical ability to describe military men in action by his knowledge and insight of the subject in hand, likewise Barbara O'Sullivan has a similar approach to detail in the chapter entitled The Battle of Cadiz, leaving the reader a desire to continue on to the next chapter.As a complete layman on history, I found her book very satisfying.

the kings quinto
good content in the book its an exellent reference book the drawings are brilliant.

kings Quinto
Raleigh trial is a classic for all time.
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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 shortcomings, he was not only charismatic and brave, he was brilliant as well, and his contributions to the New World and to western culture as a whole were vast and enduring. MAPS, ENDNOTES and BIBLIOGRAPHY, TIMELINE, INDEX. ... Read more

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not too bad...
did not realize when i bought this book that is basically for children, probably up to the age of 12 or so.for this grade level, it was fine.but this is certainly not a book for adults.it's too simple.

an excellent introduction to the ugly but fascinating world of politics
This book reads like an entertaining adventure novel but it is so much more. The court intrigues of Elizabethan England and not so different from the politics of today, both in government and corporations. The author has made a lifelong study of Sir Walter Ralegh and his passion shows. Ralegh's strengths, weaknesses and luck, both good and bad made him who he was and changed the world.The Mechanical Age: The Industrial Revolution in England (World History Library)Colonial Living.

Outstanding look at a fascinating individual
Sir Walter Ralegh (the way he spelled it) was so much more than a promoter of tobacco--although he certainly did promote tobacco.He was so much more than a man who lay down his cloak so Queen Elizabeth I would not get her feet wet--a story which may or may not be true.He was a man from a poorbackground who rose almost as high as one could in Elizabethan England--andthen fell about as low. Stunningly researched, brilliantly written, fullof fascinating facts (did you know there were no maps of England thatshowed ROADS until the 1590s), this is young adult writing at its finest. ... Read more

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Ages 8 to 14 years.When England's Queen Elizabeth I asked Sir Walter Raleigh to search for new lands to claim and colonise, her friend and loyal subject pledged to found a colony in tribute to his Queen. This exciting recreation of the founding, loss, and reclamation of the Virginia colony in the late 1500s also describes Raleigh's unsuccessful search for the fabled wealthy kingdom of El Dorado, the deterioration of his relationship with the Queen , and his eventual execution. Other topics include: England's relationships with Spain and other European powers; Raleigh's travel routes; his later explorations; how Natives in America received Raleigh and how the Europeans treated the Natives; Sir Walter Raleigh's imprisonment in the Tower of London before execution. ... Read more

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1859. And other papers. Contents: Sir Walter Raleigh and His Time; plays and Puritans; Burns and his school; hours with the mystics; Tennyson; poetry of sacred and legendary art; North Devon; Phaethon; Alexandra and her schools; my winter garden; England from Wolsey to Elizabeth. ... Read more

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In one of her earliest works, beloved author Norah Lofts brings us her riveting and romantic account of Sir Walter Raleigh and the court of Elizabeth I. Raleigh knew from the time he was a boy that his life would be exceptional. He dreams of someday exploring the New World he's heard about in snippets of sailors' stories on the docks of the fishing villages where he was raised; and his good fortune leads him to rise in the court of Elizabeth I, becoming a most trusted friend and advisor to the power players of the day.

Raleigh's wit, ambition, and adventurous spirit endear him to all, including the queen herself, but Elizabeth's favor proves as much hindrance as help, as Raleigh still has but one goal in mind -- to take to the seas and secure his place as one of the great explorers of the age. The queen will not allow her young knight to be taken from her side, repeatedly refusing his requests for expeditions, until she at last reluctantly grants him permission to conquer in her name. Meanwhile, between journeys, his passion is stirred, not by the queen but by her lady-in-waiting Lisbeth. His loyalties are split between the boundless opportunities the queen can bestow and the pull of his own heart.

With cameo appearances by Shakespeare, Marlowe, Sydney, and other luminaries of the day, Lofts once again paints a colorful, nuanced, and moving portrait of the Elizabethan Age. Here Was a Man is another timeless classic from the legendary Norah Lofts. ... Read more

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"The Discoverie", by Walter Raleigh, narrates his expedition to South America in quest of an indigenous 'empire' in the highlands of Guiana. Military encounters with the Spanish, diplomatic encounters with native kings, and enigmatic encounters with monstrous marvels, are woven into a near-mystic quest for hidden gold. However, because of these apparently fantastical elements, this key text on the European expansion into the Americas remains poorly understood. Newly transcribed and annotated, this edition for the first time provides an anthropological commentary of the original edition of "The discoverie" and challenges existing evaluations of both Raleigh and of early travel texts more generally. ... Read more

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difficult but rewarding
Little needs to be said about Ralegh's text beyond the obvious--it is a fascinating example of Renaissance self-fashioning through travel writing.It is reproduced carefully and faithfully here, with a minimum of editorial intrusion, for which readers should be grateful.

Whitehead's long introduction poses more of a problem.It is shockingly badly written--one imagines that the editors threw up their hands in despair at the atrocious quality of the prose.Only professional anthropologists and historians are likely to struggle through it.This is a great shame, because Whitehead's argument is fascinating and important.In essence, he argues that many of the most seemingly fantastical aspects of Ralegh's account (tales of Indians with faces in their chests, etc.) weren't simply European projections, but products of an interaction between European assumptions and native myths.

Another work by an armchair anthropologist
This book is basicaly a rehash of Walter Raleigh's work.Whitehead, never having done any long-term fieldwork in Amazonia, offers little new insight to his readers. He gets away with this by theorizing, as postmodernists often do, from a distance (and using the hard work of others).This book, as so much of his other work, is a sign of the decay of anthropology in USA.

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Eympyre of G
I think that this book was excellent. The author was a very talented man. I recommend this book to any one who would like to learn more about the history of South America.

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Eympyre of G
I think that this book was excellent. The author was a very talented man. I recommend this book to any one who would like to learn more about the history of South America.

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Eympyre of G
I think that this book was excellent. The author was a very talented man. I recommend this book to any one who would like to learn more about the history of South America. ... Read more

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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words.This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ... Read more

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An exploration of the life and achievements of Sir Walter Raleigh. As well as providing a full life story and analysis of his work, the author places his achievements in context by looking at the technological and historical context of the time. The title is part of a series examining the lives and achievements of important inventors and pioneers. Each volume includes: a biography illustrated with colour maps and photographs; a look at the ongoing impact of the subject's work; quotes and writings from newspapers and journals of the time; and information about rivals and the men and women who affected their life and work. ... Read more

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Presents an account of Raleigh's life and explorations, and examines their impact on history and the world. ... Read more

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Originally published in 1916.This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies.All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume. ... Read more

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An enthralling new biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking world

Tall, dark, handsome, and damnably proud, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of history’s most romantic characters. An explorer, soldier, courtier, pirate, and poet, Raleigh risked his life by trifling with the Virgin Queen’s affections. To his enemies—and there were many—he was an arrogant liar and traitor, deserving of every one of his thirteen years in the Tower of London.

Regardless of means, his accomplishments are legion: he founded the first American colony, gave the Irish the potato, and defeated Spain. He was also a brilliant operator in the shark pool of Elizabethan court politics, until he married a court beauty, without Elizabeth’s permission, and later challenged her capricious successor, James I.

Raleigh Trevelyan has traveled to each of the principal places where Raleigh adventured—Ireland, the Azores, Roanoke Islands, and the legendary El Dorado (Orinoco)—and uncovered new insights into Raleigh’s extraordinary life. New information from the Spanish archives give a freshness and immediacy to this detailed and convincing portrait of one of the most compelling figures of the Elizabethan era.

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Sir Walter Raleigh Book Review
My colleague at the Lost Colony Center for Science and Research absolutely loved receiving this from me for his Christmas present.

A Well-Reasoned Raleigh, Without Rhyme
This book is emphatically NOT what one might generally suspect from someone claiming, as the author admits, "tenuous" claims to lineage with Sir Walter: a hagiography.Rather, it is an exceedingly well-researched, meticulously organised appraisal of the man and his times.Particularly impressive to the reader will be the author's footwork to visit and record his impressions of all the places around the globe to which Sir Walter himself actually voyaged in his long career.These excursions made by the author, the descriptions and photographs of these places as they exist in our age, serve to bring the vibrant Elizabethan age closer to our own.Also, Trevelyan is always ready to point out the gaps in our knowledge of what actually transpired; the biography is strewn with questions such as:What could this mean?Who was this person? What was in this particular letter? Etc.If anything, Trevelyan perhaps takes too many pains to show that he is not penning any sort of hagiography.To this reader, at least, it seemed that the he could cut loose a bit more, as his forbear does in his writings, and write a little more con brio.

But this is a small complaint:In the end, we are left with an extremely well-rounded picture of the man, with his many faults, great daring, immense learning, who fought his way up from the lower ranks of society to be one of the men, at least in England and America, deemed one of history's true greats.It is hard to envision a better and more carefully written biography of Raleigh, barring the discovery of new documents, which may well happen.It's really quite amazing to learn how many documents, previously thought lost, have been discovered in the past 50 years, such as a will of Raleigh's discovered in a privy in the 1950s.

I do have one major complaint: To any lover of literature, to which Trevelyan makes no claim, this book cannot but be a disappointment.Raleigh's poems are printed incomplete, with whole stanzas ripped out for no apparent reason.It's almost enough to make one weep to see how the soaring poem "The Lie" is butchered here.

So, my advice is to have a copy of Raleigh's poems close at hand whilst reading the book.They are too much a part of the man to leave them in the state Trevelyan heedlessly does.

Exhaustive biography
Exhaustive biography of the name-sake of Raleigh, North Carolina (properly pronounced "Rawley", although Raleigh himself spelled it many different ways), a most interesting and modern man in a violent and backward time.

Excellent book for Elizabethan fans
This book has compelled me to write my first ever review.I've rarely read a more enjoyable biography.Although long and very dense, it is well cross-referenced, and well structured.

The depth of research is astounding, and I was particularly impressed that the author had actually traveled to all the key locations, offering a level of colour and feel not otherwise possible.

There is also a great detail of content outside of Sir Walter's own life that is immensely valuable for providing context (so important when reading about another time and place).For this amateur Elizabethan student, the opportunity to read about my favourite characters and the key events of the age from a different perspective was truly enjoyable.

At times the book shows the author's bias, but he carefully lets us know when it's his opinion, and I for one welcomed it based on his depth of knowledge.

Bravo to the author, and to those considering reading this book, a big word of encouragement.Enjoy!

New insight - legend or fop?
It is recognized that the author as a descendant of Raleigh would be somewhat biased in his assessment of his subject. With this in mind the portrayal is more balanced than one would think from the preconception and the views of others on this book. The conception most often associated with Raleigh for those unaware of his breadth of activities is that of a dandily dressed (Vincent Price) fop who laid down his cape for the queen. If one delves a little farther into common knowledge we know that he had something to do with the failed Roanoke colony. The gift of Trevelyan's biography is to fill out these clothes. To put flesh upon the man who inhabits the foppish attire. By the time the book takes us to Raleigh's second stay in the Tower, and Trevelyan tells us that people often came to see "the legend" on his daily walks upon the wall, we believe that indeed he was exactly that - a legend. The true measure of biography is that it gives the faults and failings, yet lets one follow the maturing person. Raleigh, indeed had many failings, but he nonetheless comes across in Trevelyan's telling as a compelling and interesting individual. If the Queen, Cecil (Wm.), Walsingham, and Drake are the gods of that era, then certainly the Raleigh of Trevelyan's telling is a giant. The mark ofgood non-fiction is that it encourages further exploration into the era in which it is set. Trevelyan's book is a must read for those with any interest in this period of English history, particularly that touching on the rise of empire and the role of maritime successes. ... Read more

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