Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: Very Good
Publisher: Jonathan Cape Ltd
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 1977
Edition: Reprint

Description: 367 pages. Book and Jacket are both in Very good condition throughout. The only exception are a few light age markings on the page edges.

Publishers Description: Sir Richard Grenville (1542 - 1591), English sea captain and explorer, became a legendary figure in the resistance to the Spanish Armada, dying as a result of wounds sustained at the helm of the galleon Revenge in the Battle of a fight in which he struggled against overwhelming odds.First published in 1937, Sir Richard Grenville of the Revenge was A.L. Rowses first full-length historical monograph.There is no doubt that Mr Rowses book will establish itself as the standard biography of Grenville, and he deserves our unstinting thanks for the patient research that he has put into it. J.E. Neale, Sunday TimesMagnificent... I was delighted, too, by the masterful descriptions of the Elizabethan era and the brilliant figures of that age. Lloyd George, in a letter to A.L. Rowse

ISBN: 0224013564