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Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado - Hardcover

Aronson, Marc

 
9780395848272: Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 039584827X ISBN 13: 9780395848272
Verlag: Clarion Books, 2000

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Marc Aronson is the award-winning author of a wide variety of nonfiction works for younger readers, including Sugar Changed the World and Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado, which received the first Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Award. He edits and publishes young adult fiction in a special arrangement with Candlewick and lives with his wife and two sons in Maplewood, New Jersey. Visit him at marcaronson.com.

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Verlag
Clarion Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
039584827X
ISBN 13 
9780395848272
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
240
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