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    Patriot or Traitor: The Life and Death of Sir Walter Ralegh

    By Anna Beer

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    Sir Walter Ralegh’s life is romantic, irresistible and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh’s famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction life in all its richness.

    How could a man once the Queen’s favourite find himself consigned to the Tower by her successor? Should his legacy be fame or infamy? Who was the real Sir Walter Ralegh?
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOneworld Publications
    Release dateOct 4, 2018
    ISBN9781786074355
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    Anna Beer

    Anna Beer is a cultural historian, and the author of biographies of Milton, Sir Walter Ralegh, and Lady Bess Ralegh. Her most recent book is Sounds and Sweet Airs: The Forgotten Women of Classical Music, also published by Oneworld. She is a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford and lives in Oxford, England. Follow her on Twitter @annarosebeer.

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