Download or read book Sir Walter Ralegh s Discoverie of Guiana written by Sir Walter Raleigh and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Walter Ralegh's account of his 1595 expedition in search of the fabled empire of El Dorado was an immediate publishing success and is one of the most important pieces of Elizabethan travel literature. This edition presents the annotated texts of an unpublished copy of Ralegh's draft of The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtifvl Empyre of Gviana and the subsequent printed versions. It demonstrates how the manuscript was altered for publication, to focus its appeal to investors in gold mines for which Ralegh had very little evidence.

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Download or read book The Discovery of Guiana written by Sir Walter Raleigh and published by . This book was released on 2008-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in 1554, Raleigh was knighted in 1585 by Elizabeth I. In 1595 Sir Walter Raleigh led an expedition to what is now Venezuela in South America, sailing up the Orinoco River in the heart of Spain's colonial empire. The Discoverie of Guiana (1596) is the story of this expedition. The stories told by Indians and some Spanish documents convinced Raleigh of the existence of El Dorado, a mythical city of gold in the interior of South America. Raleigh did locate some gold mines, but no one supported his project for colonizing the area.

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Download or read book The Discovery of Guiana written by Walter Raleigh and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-03-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After enjoying several years of high esteem from Queen Elizabeth I, which stemmed in part from his previous exploits at sea, Raleigh suffered a short imprisonment for secretly marrying one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting. In an attempt to bring himself back into favor, Raleigh sailed to Guiana in 1595, hoping to find gold and other material to exchange or extort. One contemporary scholar remarks of this journey, "Although the expedition itself was hardly a success-Ralegh conquered no lands, found no stores of wealth, and discovered little not observed by earlier adventurers-he created a triumph for himself by publishing The Discovery." He returned to Guiana one more time, in 1617, this time after a twelve-year imprisonment at the hands of King James I. Unfortunately for Raleigh, this adventure did not yield more gold, nor did it yield a published account, likely since he was arrested soon after returning, and sentenced to death.

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Download or read book The Discoverie of the Large Rich and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana written by Sir Walter Raleigh and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Neil Whitehead offers a scholarly edition of Sir Walter Raleigh's account of his expedition to South America in search of an indegenous 'empire' in the highlands of Guiana.

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Download or read book The Discovery of Guiana written by Walter Ralegh and published by Bedford/St. Martin's. This book was released on 2007-09-07 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Walter Ralegh's The Discovery of Guiana is a masterpiece of early travel literature that brings together important themes of Renaissance exploration, the European encounter with the New World, and the culture and politics of early modern Europe. Part travel journal, part geography primer, part political tract, Ralegh's account offers insight into a time of worldwide transformation. Benjamin Schmidt's insightful introduction places Ralegh's 1595 American adventure against a backdrop of sixteenth-century colonial rivalry and Elizabethan court intrigue. The volume includes additional documents from the Age of Exploration, including contemporary engravings that illustrate prevailing images of the New World and portraits of Ralegh that emphasize the importance of Renaissance self-fashioning. Document headnotes, a chronology, questions for consideration, and a selected bibliography offer additional pedagogical support.

Download or read book The Discoverie of the Large and Bewtiful Empire of Guiana by Sir Walter Ralegh Edited from the Original Text with Introduction Notes and Appendixes of Hitherto Unpublished Documents by V T Harlow M A B Litt Author of Colonising Expeditions to the West Indies and Guiana 1924 A History of Barbados 1926 Etc Etc written by Sir Walter Raleigh and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Sir Walter Raleigh written by Raleigh Trevelyan and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 1078 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enthralling new biography of the most exciting and charismatic adventurer in the history of the English-speaking world Tall, dark, handsome, and damnably proud, Sir Walter Raleigh was one of history's most romantic characters. An explorer, soldier, courtier, pirate, and poet, Raleigh risked his life by trifling with the Virgin Queen's affections. To his enemies—and there were many—he was an arrogant liar and traitor, deserving of every one of his thirteen years in the Tower of London. Regardless of means, his accomplishments are legion: he founded the first American colony, gave the Irish the potato, and defeated Spain. He was also a brilliant operator in the shark pool of Elizabethan court politics, until he married a court beauty, without Elizabeth's permission, and later challenged her capricious successor, James I. Raleigh Trevelyan has traveled to each of the principal places where Raleigh adventured—Ireland, the Azores, Roanoke Islands, and the legendary El Dorado (Orinoco)—and uncovered new insights into Raleigh's extraordinary life. New information from the Spanish archives give a freshness and immediacy to this detailed and convincing portrait of one of the most compelling figures of the Elizabethan era.