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That Great Lucifer: Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh

That Great Lucifer: Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh

by Margaret Irwin (Author)

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    Paperback 1998

    $3.47
Synopsis

A biography of Sir Walter Ralegh - soldier, sailor, Captain of the Queen's guard, explorer, poet, scientist and literary patron. It was Ralegh who devised the plan that brought about the destruction of the Armada, and who sailed into Cadiz harbour to grapple with the King of Spain's warships.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: New edition
 Publisher: Allison & Busby
Published: 20 Jun 1998
ISBN 10: 0749003278
ISBN 13: 9780749003272

Media Reviews
'IK doubt if anyone could create more perfectly than Miss Irwin the illusion of a vanished age' The Observer - 'The book is not simply a good biography ... but a vision' Times Literary Supplement - 'Margaret Irwin's books have an unsurpassed colour and gusto' PAMELA HANSFORD JOHNSON - 'To her brilliant sense of period, Miss Irwin adds an artist's view of relativity' Country Life.
Author Bio
Margaret Irwin, was a noted authority on the Elizabethan Age. Her novels about Elizabeth I (Young Bess, Elizabeth Captive Princess and Elizabeth and the Prince of Spain - all to be re-issued by Allison & Busby) vividly ecreate that great age of English history. Margaret Irwin dided in 1967.