Walter Raleigh: Man Of Two Worlds by Henrietta Buckmaster Landmark #58 1964 HC

Homeschooling Living BookFamous men who built America classic Landmark history narrative. rare volume #W-58Sir Walter Raleigh lived nearly four hundred years ago, but he was a modern man in almost every sense of the word. He was vividly interested in ideas, he was a poet, he was a soldier and a sailor, he was an explorer and he sensed, although he did not fully understand, the tremendous value of the oil he found in what is now Venezuela. His treatment of native people was so enlightened that he would have made a good Peace Corps administrator any place in the world. He dreamed of a great new nation in America built by men and women who would be free and independent. Raleigh, North Carolina, His courageous defense of himself at his trial for treason challenged old laws in such a fashion that a quiet legal revolution took place.

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