Showing Sir Walter Ralegh and the Quest for El Dorado by Marc Aronson

Hardcover. Pub Date: 2000 Pages: 240 Publisher: Clarion Books In this Extraordinarily well researched Insightful biography Marc Aronson Explores the amazing Accomplishments of Dismal failures of one of the most Flamboyant figures of the Elizabethan age. Best remembered for laying his coat in a muddy puddle so that Queen Elizabeth I could walk across it. Sir Walter Ralegh committed himself to pleasing his monarch and obtaining power in her court. He heroically risked his life in battle time and again. chasing after glory to win her favor . His notoriously ill-fated quest for the mythological golden city of El Dorado was perhaps his grandest attempt. but it also was his undoing. and Ralegh ultimately paid for his mistakes with his life. Despite his shortcomings. he was not only charismatic and ave . he was illiant as well. and his contributions to the New World and to western ...