The Voyage of Destiny - Softcover

Aboard the "Destiny" at the mouth of the Orinoco, Walter Ralegh, disgraced courtier, poet and lover of Elizabeth I, writes his confession in the shadow of the axe. Reviewing the excitement and despair of a great life, his autobiography becomes a voyage beyond past and present.

Robert Nye was born in London in 1939. His principal calling is poetry, and his A COLLECTION OF POEMS 1955-1988 was chosen by six critics as one of their Books of the Year. FALSTAFF, his second novel, was published in 1976 and won both the Hawthornden Prize and the Guardian Fiction Prize. His books have been translated into many languages, and he is also a respected literary journalist, having served for the past two decades as poetry critic for The Times.