Afloat and Ashore with Sir Walter Raleigh by Janet Gordon
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ePublished by
January 2020
Originally published 1876
Non-fiction, Age of Sail
Author: Janet Gordon
ePublished by
January 2020
Originally published 1876
Non-fiction, Age of Sail
Author: Janet Gordon
Afloat and Ashore with Sir Walter Raleigh, re-published here in digital form, describes the life and career of Sir Walter Raleigh (1552–1618), “one of the most remarkable and accomplished Englishmen of his day; a man of varied and versatile gifts, an accomplished courtier, a successful captain both by land and sea, an erudite scholar, a profound thinker, and an eloquent author.”
This great man’s cruel treatment and eventual beheading by the small-minded and vindictive King James will remain a stain on his name and a stain on the reputation of the nation forever—more the latter than the former. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their foulest hour.’”
This great man’s cruel treatment and eventual beheading by the small-minded and vindictive King James will remain a stain on his name and a stain on the reputation of the nation forever—more the latter than the former. To paraphrase Winston Churchill, “if the British Empire and its Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say, ‘This was their foulest hour.’”