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The Last Elizabethan (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)

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The Last Elizabethan: A Portrait of Sir Walter Ralegh follows a chronological progression from Ralegh’s childhood as the youngest son of a poor but proud Devon- shire country gentleman to his execution on trumped up charges sixty-four years later. Constance Fecher’s book is not a fictionalized, romanticized history; it is a careful study of an intriguing, courageous individual who was perhaps too modern, intelligent, and tolerant for his age. Ralegh was a poet, scientist, sailor, colonizer, courtier, historian, a favorite of a great queen, and a...

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