Sir Walter Raleigh: In Life and Legend [Hardcover]

New biography of one of the key figures in British history focusing on both his writing and legacy.

Mark Nicholls is President and Librarian of St John's College, Cambridge.

Mark Nicholls is President and Librarian of St John's College, Cambridge.

Honorary Fellow of New College, Oxford. Sometime Lecturer in History at the University of Oxford.

While the authors have the luxury of footnotes and the skill to do proper academic research they have the good fortune to be able to write for a general audience... An excellent biography. Contemporary Review, Volume 293, No. 1702

Every stage of [Raleigh's] life, works and reputation is carefully anatomized by Nicholls and Williams, and their biography will bring him vividly before new generations of readers. The Times Literary Supplement

[Ralegh's career is] described with immense care and judiciousness by Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams in what will surely become the standard biography. London Review of Books

With this landmark book, Mark Nicholls and Penry Williams debunk the legends, giving us instead a story that is all the more engrossing for its sophistication. The Sunday Times

Even in our own times, Ralegh has hardly lacked for either scholarly or popular interpreters, this new biography, learned and accessible in equal measure, is nonetheless highly welcome. It will surely become the standard starting point for any one interested in his career and writings. Literary Review

There is so much more to Ralegh, more than one column - or one book - can cover. But Nicholls and Williams have given us a set of Ralegh stories that could keep us busy for a lifetime. thepilot.com

Nicholls and Williams seek to dismember many myths that have grown around Raleigh yet in a book of great depth probe the ambitious and adventurous character of a mal31