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Ralegh's Last Journey : A Tale of Madness, Vanity and Treachery
by Hyland, Paul
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0007106009
- ISBN 13
- 9780007106004
- Seller
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About This Item
London: HarperCollins, 2003. 1st Edition 1st Impression. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First edition, first printing. 242pp. Black cloth-covered boards, gilt titles on spine. Lightly bumped spine heel. Pages tanning. Internally neat, clean and tight. Likely unread. Dust jacket lightly chipped along edges, price unclipped. 8vo. Sir Walter Raleigh was one of the greatest courtiers of his day, Elizabeth's favourite, dashing, brilliant, wily and powerful. This book takes as its subject his extraordinary last 20 weeks, during the summer of 1618 when, his last voyage a failure and under great suspicion from James I, he was escorted back to London by Sir Lewis Stucley; the tragicomic story of this journey, from Plymouth to the scaffold, of Raleigh's grotesque behaviour along the way, of the web of deceit and counter-treachery woven between him and his reviled and much misunderstood betrayer Judas Stucley, and of their travelling companion the French physician and double agent Dr Manourie.
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- Bookseller
- BookAddiction
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005837
- Title
- Ralegh's Last Journey : A Tale of Madness, Vanity and Treachery
- Author
- Hyland, Paul
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 2
- Edition
- 1st Edition 1st Impression
- ISBN 10
- 0007106009
- ISBN 13
- 9780007106004
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2003
- Keywords
- historical biography, ralegh, sir walter raleigh, raleigh, elizabethan england,
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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