Sir Walter Ralegh and the quest for El Dorado / Marc Aronson.
Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xviii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780395848272
- 039584827X
- Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618 -- Juvenile literature
- Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
- Raleigh, Walter
- Raleigh, Walter, Sir, approximately 1552-1618
- Raleigh, Walter
- Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618
- Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Explorers
- Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography
- Courts and courtiers
- Discoveries in geography
- Explorers
- American dream
- Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography -- Juvenile literature
- Guiana -- Discovery and exploration -- Juvenile literature
- Great Britain -- Court and courtiers
- Guiana -- Discovery and exploration
- South America -- Guiana
- Great Britain
- 942.05/5/092 B 23
- DA86.22.R2 A76 2000
- K835.615.89
- RB 10026
- Boston-Globe-Horn Book Award, 2000
- Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2001, ALA Notable Children's Book, 2001.
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Children's Books | Academic Resource Center at Levitt Juvenile Books (MAIN level) | JUVE DA 86.22 .R2 A76 2000 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 24243 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Map of Voyages to the New World -- Cast of Characters -- Prologue: Between Paradise and the Serpent's Mouth -- The Golden Man -- What Was El Dorado? -- Rising -- From Devon to the Wars -- How England Became England -- Family and Faith -- The Most Grievous Calamity -- The Queen's Problem -- The Queen's Progress -- Plantations -- Gallant Captain -- Fortune's Favor -- The Lost Colony -- Near to Heaven by Sea -- A Land of Plenty -- The First Colony: Ireland in America -- An Ingenious People -- Dreams and Mirages -- An El Dorado in Ireland -- Captains and Maids -- The New Hope and the Terrible Year -- The Armada -- The Agony of John White -- El Dorado -- The Lie -- All the World's a Stage -- The Mother of Prizes -- Beyond the Horizon -- The Discovery of the Golden Kingdom -- My Lord of Essex -- Mischievous Matchivel -- The Play of Treason -- Prologue: The Royal Hunt -- James's Double Game -- Ralegh Takes Center Stage -- Plays Within Plays -- The Story of Our Days -- Endgame -- Proving a Myth -- Sharp Medicine -- Time Line.
Recounts the adventurous life of the English explorer and courtier who spelled his name "Ralegh" and led many expeditions to the New World.
Reading Counts RC 6-8 7.8 11.0 22081.
45212. Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.2 8.0.
Boston-Globe-Horn Book Award, 2000
Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2001, ALA Notable Children's Book, 2001.
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