<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<GoodreadsResponse>
	<Request>
		<authentication>false</authentication>
		    <method><![CDATA[]]></method>
	</Request>
	<author id="772978">
  <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
  <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
  <fans-count type="integer">0</fans-count>
  <followers-count type="integer">0</followers-count>
  <image_url>http://photo.goodreads.com/authors/1249440191p5/772978.jpg</image_url>
  <about><![CDATA[Sir Walter Raleigh or Ralegh (c. 1552 – 29 October 1618), was a famed English writer, poet, soldier, courtier, and explorer.

Raleigh was born to a Protestant family in Devon, the son of Walter Raleigh and Catherine Champernowne. Little is known for certain of his early life, though he spent some time in Ireland, in Killua Castle, Clonmellon, County Westmeath, taking part in the suppression of rebellions and participating in two infamous massacres at Rathlin Island and Smerwick, later becoming a landlord of lands confiscated from the Irish. He rose rapidly in Queen Elizabeth I's favour, being knighted in 1585, and was involved in the early English colonisation of the New World in Virginia under a royal patent. In 1591 he secretly married Elizabeth Throckmorton, one of the Queen's ladies-in-waiting, without requesting the Queen's permission, for which he and his wife were sent to the Tower of London. After his release, they retired to his estate at Sherborne, Dorset.

In 1594 Raleigh heard of a &quot;City of Gold&quot; in South America and sailed to find it, publishing an exaggerated account of his experiences in a book that contributed to the legend of El Dorado. After Queen Elizabeth died in 1603, Raleigh was again imprisoned in the Tower, this time for allegedly being involved in the Main Plot against King James I, who was not favourably disposed toward him. In 1616, however, he was released in order to conduct a second expedition in search of El Dorado. This was unsuccessful and the Spanish outpost at San Thomé was ransacked by men under his command. After his return to England he was arrested and, after a show trial held mainly to appease the Spanish after Raleigh's attack of San Thomé, he was beheaded at Whitehall.
]]></about>    <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Devon, England</hometown>    <died_at>10/29/1618</died_at>  
  
  
  <books>
        <book id="1904537">
  <title><![CDATA[The Poems of Sir Walter Raleigh: Collected and Authenticated With Those of Sir Henry Wotton and Other Courtly Poets from 1540 to 1650]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>4.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>8</ratings_count>
  <published>2000</published>  
  
</book>
        <book id="903652">
  <title><![CDATA[The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtiful Empyre of Guiana (The American Exploration and Travel Series , Vol 77)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Neil L. Whitehead]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/557211]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>2.60</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>5</ratings_count>
  <published>1970</published>  
  
</book>
        <book id="3469381">
  <title><![CDATA[English Novel: A Short Sketch Of Its History From Earliest Times...]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <published>1895</published>  
  
</book>
        <book id="1300342">
  <title><![CDATA[The Letters of Sir Walter Raleigh]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>5.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <published>1999</published>  
  
</book>
        <book id="5883567">
  <title><![CDATA[Raleigh: Selected Writings]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Gerald Hammond]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1314338]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>3.00</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>1</ratings_count>
  <published>1986</published>  
  
</book>
        <book id="7183161">
  <title><![CDATA[Practical Wisdom Or The Manual Of Life: The Counsels Of Eminent Men To Their Children (1824)]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Henry Sidney]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1879439]]></link>
    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Benjamin Franklin]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1879440]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <published>2009</published>  
  
</book>
        <book id="7088801">
  <title><![CDATA[Poems]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Agnes M.C. Latham]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1842916]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <published>1951</published>  
  
</book>
        <book id="7088787">
  <title><![CDATA[Poems of Sir Walter Ralegh]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Agnes M.C. Latham]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/1842914]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <published>1951</published>  
  
</book>
        <book id="6711296">
  <title><![CDATA[The Discovery of Guiana]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
    
  
</book>
        <book id="5634749">
  <title><![CDATA[A Choice of Verse]]></title>
  <authors>
    <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Walter Raleigh]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/772978.Walter_Raleigh]]></link>
    </author>
      </authors>
  <average_rating>0.0</average_rating>
  <ratings_count>0</ratings_count>
  <published>1972</published>  
  
</book>
      </books>
</author>
</GoodreadsResponse>