Book description
A meticulous re-creation of Elizabethan England that forms a trilogy with The Succession and Entered from the Sun. Here the author delves into the story of Sir Walter Ralegh's fall from favor for alleged conspiracy against James I. Garrett transports the reader to a world of cunning, intrigue, and colorful…
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A great, epic wonder of a book, one of my favorite novels ever. I just read it again after many years to see how it held up, and it is still as I remembered it. It is both a fictional biography of Sir Walter Ralegh and of the Age of Elizabeth. Ralegh himself is a prodigious figure, an adventurer, scholar, privateer, explorer, and courtier, and possibly beloved of Queen Elizabeth I.
The plot, insofar as it is relevant, has Ralegh in the Tower waiting to be executed by the paranoid and jealous King James I. But the story is really…
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