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Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World
Giles Milton
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Description for Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World
Paperback. Bestselling author of NATHANIEL'S NUTMEG, Giles Milton takes us on another fascinating and extraordinary historical adventure. Num Pages: 432 pages, B/W maps and illustrations throughout. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 1KB; 1QDB; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH; RGR. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 132 x 29. Weight in Grams: 292. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth I acquired a new and exotic title. A tribe of North American Indians had made her their weroanza - 'big chief'. The news was received with great joy, both by the Queen and her favourite, Sir Walter Ralegh. His first American expedition had brought back a captive, Manteo, whose tattooed face had enthralled Elizabethan London. Now Manteo was returned to his homeland as Lord and Governor. Ralegh's gamble would result in the first English settlement in the New World, but it would also lead to a riddle whose solution lay hidden in the forests of Virginia. A tale of heroism and mystery, BIG CHIEF ELIZABETH is illuminated by first-hand accounts to reveal a remarkable and long-forgotten story.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Murray
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
432
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780340748824
SKU
KKD0005696
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Giles Milton
Giles Milton is a writer and historian. He is the internationally bestselling author of Nathaniel's Nutmeg, Big Chief Elizabeth, The Riddle and the Knight, White Gold, Samurai William, Paradise Lost, Wolfram and Russian Roulette. He has also written three novels and three children's books. His books have been translated into twenty languages. He lives in south London. Find out more about Giles and his books on his website, www.gilesmilton.com, and Wikipedia page, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giles_Milton, follow him on Twitter at twitter.com/survivehistory and like him on Facebook at facebook.com/pages/Giles-Milton-Writer/121068034610842.
Reviews for Big Chief Elizabeth: How England's Adventurers Gambled and Won the New World
A wonderfully colourful story told with pace and verve
Sunday Telegraph
Splendid stuff ... fascinatingly told ... An excellent book
Time Out
Milton has a terrific eye for the kind of detail that can bring the past vividly to life off the page
The Spectator
'Milton knits together the most vivid anecdotes and descriptions from a very colourful literature of exploration and colonization, and anyone wanting easy access to them has it here'.
The Times Literary Supplement
Milton ... draws a vivid picture of the terrible hardships the settlers endured
The Times
Grippingly told true adventure story
Daily Mail
Milton is a great storyteller ... he sets about filling in the historical gaps with relish, using his considerable imagination to conjure mood from dry parchment
Sunday Express
'The story of the first Virginia colonies, now told in pacy style in Big Chief Elizabeth, is stirring and fitfully tragic...This is a marvellous story well retold' Sunday Times 'It's almost impossible to summarise Milton's book, from which marvellous, vivid stories spill out like swagsack booty. ... Milton is a very contemporary historian' Guardian Like Giles Milton's previous book, ... Big Chief Elizabeth is a cracking read, a successful attempt at popular history
Evening Standard
Sunday Telegraph
Splendid stuff ... fascinatingly told ... An excellent book
Time Out
Milton has a terrific eye for the kind of detail that can bring the past vividly to life off the page
The Spectator
'Milton knits together the most vivid anecdotes and descriptions from a very colourful literature of exploration and colonization, and anyone wanting easy access to them has it here'.
The Times Literary Supplement
Milton ... draws a vivid picture of the terrible hardships the settlers endured
The Times
Grippingly told true adventure story
Daily Mail
Milton is a great storyteller ... he sets about filling in the historical gaps with relish, using his considerable imagination to conjure mood from dry parchment
Sunday Express
'The story of the first Virginia colonies, now told in pacy style in Big Chief Elizabeth, is stirring and fitfully tragic...This is a marvellous story well retold' Sunday Times 'It's almost impossible to summarise Milton's book, from which marvellous, vivid stories spill out like swagsack booty. ... Milton is a very contemporary historian' Guardian Like Giles Milton's previous book, ... Big Chief Elizabeth is a cracking read, a successful attempt at popular history
Evening Standard