Sir Walter Ralegh: A biography. Reissue with a frontispiece and a list of authorities

by William Stebbing

Sir Walter Ralegh - A biography. Reissue with a frontispiece and a list of authorities is an unchanged, high-quality reprint of the original edition of 1899. Hansebooks is editor of the literature on different topic areas such as research and science, travel and expeditions, cooking and nutrition, medicine, and other genres. As a publisher we focus on the preservation of historical literature. Many works of historical writers and scientists are available today as antiques only. Hansebooks newly publishes these books and contributes to the preservation of literature which has become rare and historical knowledge for the future.

Genres: Biography, History

448 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1972

Reviews

[P.J. Sullivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is “the plain story of an eventful life,” said the author, but it is written in ornate and archaic language. It is not an easy read. Understandable, yes, if you are willing to make the effort, but I sometimes had to read paragraphs two or three times to make sense of them. It is biased in Ralegh’s favor, even to calling him a genius and a great man. It mentions, without condemning, his genocidal brutality to the Irish. Stebbing says that he endeavored not “to find affection for the man incompatible with the condemnation of his errors.” Genocide is a crime, Mr. Stebbing, not an “error.” Ralegh’s behavior in Ireland marks him as a brute, but you would not know it from this book.

That said, this book is very thorough and detailed and well-researched, from primary and secondary sources. Unlike most biographies of Ralegh, it gets his surname right—he never used the name “Raleigh.”