Big Chief Elizabeth. How England's Adventurers Gambled And Won The World

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2000
Edition: First Edition

Description: 416 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In April 1586, Queen Elizabeth 1 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. It was a strange story that was to have an even more extraordinary twist. 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 meticulously researched tale of heorism and mystery, this book is illuminated by first-hand accounts to reveal a remarkable and long-forgotten story.

ISBN: 9780340748817