Raleigh, Walter

Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern (Harvard Classics, 33)

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Voyages and Travels Ancient and Modern (Harvard Classics, 33)
Herodotus , Tacitus , Sir Francis Drake , Francis Pretty , Cpt. Walter Bigges , Edward Haies , and Sir Walter Raleigh
Manufacturer: P. F. Collier & Son Corporation
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Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: B000B45QI6

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History of the World
Sir Walter Raleigh
Manufacturer: Macmillan
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Binding: Hardcover

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ASIN: 0333018370

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Wordsworth
Walter Raleigh
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 0766143295

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1925. This work is an attempt to approach the poetry of the incomparable Wordsworth with a favorable disposition; to attempt to read it as he would have wished it to be read; and to find in it what he attempted to express. Raleigh takes the reader on a journey wherein we follow Wordsworth and watch him make his way along the precipitous edge which is the boundary of thought and his attainment of a clearer and truer view of life than is granted to most poets.

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Insight into the Greatest Renaissance Man in 16c England

The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleigh
Manufacturer: University of Exeter Press
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Binding: Hardcover

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' . . . this substantial volume brings together all that is known of his correspondence, uncollected since 1868 and much expanded and refined. Students of history and literature will grasp at this book as it throws a beam across the glorious, if storm - tossed, life of one of the more attractive (perhaps the most attractive) personality of a late Tudor and early Jacobean statesman, poet and adventurer. . . Joyce Youings has done a fine job. She has given us the essentials of Agnes Latham's long labours and added her own academic and editing skills to make the volume one of the finest editions to English Renaissance scholarship we are likely to see in this last year of the millennium.' - South West Soundings October 1999

'The University of Exeter Press has done the proud Devon man proud. The book is well printed and generously illustrated. Students will be grateful for plates of holograph letters which illustrate the varying forms of Ralegh's hand, and include an example of a sketch of a scaffold or gallows that he use to emphasize the message "hast post hast! hast for life".' - TLS October 22 1999

'Covering the years from 1581 to 1617 the letters provide a fascinating perspective on Ralegh's career and varied interests . . . The product of life-long scholarship, this edition provides a clear and well-organized text, supported by a valuable critical apparatus that includes an informed and instructive introduction which places the material in context. It is an attractively produced volume which includes several plates of original letters set against their modern text. Non-specialists may find some of the material heavy going, but for maritime historians of the period this is an important and invaluable edition of a rich collection of primary source material.' - International Journal of Maritime History

'Professor Youing's contribution is no small one, for many of these letters are full of local references and she probably knows more about the Elizabethan West Country than anyone else alive.' - London Review of Books, 6 July 2000

'The presses regularly roll out a new life of the great Devonian, but few if any add much of significance. This book is different. It offers the best chance of further investigation into several obscure areas.' - Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, Spring 2000

'While the publication is itself a notable achievement in book design, the extensive endnotes along with the comprehensive introduction and index (all apparently added by Youings) make the book an extremely useful reference work on Sir Walter Ralegh.' - International History Review, vol xxii2, June 2000

'For consummated Ralegh scholars, these letters (given the inclusion of a good number of unpublished items) are certainly fascinating.' - Aevum Rassegna di scienze storiche linguistiche e filologiche 3, Anno LXXIV, Settembre-Dicembre 2000

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Insight into the Greatest Renaissance Man in 16c England.......2000-05-07

Walter Ralegh, of course, was an exceedingly complex and talented man; among other duties, he was a soldier, a sailor, and one of the finest poets of his time. From his military exploits in Ireland in the 1580s, after which marked his rise to favor at court, to his period of disgrace (due to his marraige to Elizabeth Throckmorton) in the 1590s, the life of Ralegh is defined by ambition and privelidge, and the struggle to maintain a strong position at court amidst an often hostile constituency.

"The Letters of Walter Ralegh" provides penetrating insights into his personal life. In these letters, one is also reminded of Ralegh's masterful skills as a writer. Ralegh's letters refect both his private and public struggles, and should be considered essential reading for anyone who wishes to learn more about this dynamic man who experienced the heights of success and misfortune. The book's editor, Anges Latham, is a world renowned schoilar on Ralegh, and her work in this edition is again stellar. I highly recommend this book.

The Discovery Of Guiana
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The Discovery Of Guiana
Walter Raleigh
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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ASIN: 1419159860

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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.

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (American Exploration and Travel Series)

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difficult but rewarding
Another work by an armchair anthropologist
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Eympyre of G
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Eympyre of G
The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Eympyre of G

The Discoverie of the Large, Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (American Exploration and Travel Series)
Walter Raleigh
Manufacturer: Univ of Oklahoma Pr
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Binding: Hardcover

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difficult but rewarding.......2001-11-22

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.......2001-05-07

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.......2000-02-05

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.......2000-02-05

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.......2000-02-05

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.

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Style
Walter Alexander Raleigh
Manufacturer: Taylor & Francis
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover
ASIN: 0824086155

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Style, the Latin name for an iron pen, has come to designate the art that handles, with ever fresh vitality and wary alacrity, the fluid elements of speech. By a figure, obvious enough, which yet might serve for an epitome of literary method, the most rigid and simplest of instruments has lent its name to the subtlest and most flexible of arts. Thence the application of the word has been extended to arts other than literature.

The English novel,: A short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley,

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The English novel,: A short sketch of its history from the earliest times to the appearance of Waverley,
Walter Alexander Raleigh
Manufacturer: Charles Scribner's
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Binding: Unknown Binding

The discoverie of the large, rich, and bevvtifvl empyre of Gviana,: With a relation of the great and golden citie of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El ... riuers, adioyning ([Bibliotheca Americana])

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The discoverie of the large, rich, and bevvtifvl empyre of Gviana,: With a relation of the great and golden citie of Manoa (which the Spanyards call El ... riuers, adioyning ([Bibliotheca Americana])
Walter Raleigh
Manufacturer: World Pub. Co
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Binding: Unknown Binding

The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh 1879 to 1922

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The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh 1879 to 1922
Walter, Sir Raleigh
Manufacturer: Kessinger Publishing
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Binding: Paperback

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ASIN: 1417924764

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1926. Two Volumes in One. With a preface by David Nichol Smith. With nine illustrations. The death of Sir Walter Raleigh in 1922, on his return from his flight to Baghdad in connection with his official history of the Air Force during the War, deprived England of one of her most brilliant scholars and expositors, and a large number of persons of one of their most valued friends. In this book, in which have been collected all the letters available, covering a period from his youth to a day or so before his death, the Walter Raleigh, scholar, critic, friend and humorist, is to be found in every one of his moods; and that is saying a great deal, for he was one of the most varied and enchanting of companions. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.

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