- Gebundene Ausgabe: 240 Seiten
- Verlag: Clarion Books (17. April 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 039584827X
- ISBN-13: 978-0395848272
- Vom Hersteller empfohlenes Alter: Ab 12 Jahren
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 24 x 19,7 x 2,2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 5.0 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (1 Kundenrezension)
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.581.060 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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Ambitious, brave, calculating, romantic, all these adjectives and many more describe Sir Walter Ralegh (his own spelling), the English explorer who forged a place for his country in the New World. This is much more than just a traditional biography. It's a portrait of the Elizabethan age, when the metaphor of exploration made its way into politics, literature, and even religion. The book chronicles Ralegh's rise from his country-bumpkin origins to Elizabeth's courtier and goes on to describe how his ambition pointed him toward the New World. It also reveals much about the intrigue at Queen Elizabeth's court, as well as the motives and machinations of those living in the Americas. The search for El Dorado, in the literal sense as a quest for gold and in the larger vision of a New Eden, weaves itself throughout the story; its treasure hunt aspects will be what grab many readers. The book's length may deter, and with such a wide range of topics, the transitions are occasionally disjointed. But the book is beautifully researched, and it is written with wit and passion. The many black-and-white reproductions of portraits and maps add to the handsome design. Sweeping, multilayered nonfiction. Notes and a time line are appended. Ilene Cooper
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Forming what amounts to a trilogy with Albert Marrin's The Sea King: Sir Francis Drake and His Times (1995) and Ralph C. Staiger's Thomas Harriot, Science Pioneer (not reviewed), this absorbing story of an adventurer's adventurer takes readers from the brilliant, intrigue-ridden court of Queen Elizabeth to the unmapped reaches of North and South America, from dizzying heights of wealth and success to years of imprisonment and a traitor's death. Aronson (Art Attack: A Short Cultural History of the Avant-Garde, 1998) portrays Ralegh as an upstart who rose high thanks to prodigious intellect, ability, and ambition, plus a taste for total risks that brought the chance of greater glory, but who was plagued, and ultimately killed, by his own misjudgments. With side excursions to Queen Elizabeth's reign and court of love, the war with Spain, the predatory attitude with which European powers regarded the Americas, and the seductive legend of a vast hidden hoard of Inca treasure guarded by a golden man, El Dorado, Aronson not only details Ralegh's career as soldier, sailor, explorer, writer, and schemer but consistently discusses causes, effects, and the broader significance of events large and small. Readers will be as riveted by his strong, dramatic writing as they are enlightened by his wide-ranging analyses. Illustrated with contemporary maps and prints, backed by capacious endnotes, this is as much a study of a culture at the threshold of the modern era as it is a tribute to one of the grand and grandly flawed figures who led the charge across that threshold. (index, timeline, cast of characters, author's note, map, glossary, endnotes, bibliography) (Biography. 12+) -- Copyright © 2000 Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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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 poor background who rose almost as high as one could in Elizabethan England--and then fell about as low. Stunningly researched, brilliantly written, full of fascinating facts (did you know there were no maps of England that showed ROADS until the 1590s), this is young adult writing at its finest.
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Outstanding look at a fascinating individual
5. Juni 2000
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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 poor background who rose almost as high as one could in Elizabethan England--and then fell about as low. Stunningly researched, brilliantly written, full of fascinating facts (did you know there were no maps of England that showed ROADS until the 1590s), this is young adult writing at its finest.
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an excellent introduction to the ugly but fascinating world of politics
18. Mai 2007
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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.
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not too bad...
6. Juni 2007
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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.
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