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Sir Walter Ralegh and the quest for El Dorado / Marc Aronson.

By: Publisher: New York : Clarion Books, a Houghton Mifflin Company imprint, [2000]Copyright date: ©2000Description: xviii, 222 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780395848272
  • 039584827X
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 942.05/5/092 B 23
LOC classification:
  • DA86.22.R2 A76 2000
Other classification:
  • K835.615.89
  • RB 10026
Contents:
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.
Awards:
  • Boston-Globe-Horn Book Award, 2000
  • Robert F. Sibert Informational Book Medal, 2001, ALA Notable Children's Book, 2001.
Summary: Recounts the adventurous life of the English explorer and courtier who spelled his name "Ralegh" and led many expeditions to the New World.
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Item type Current library Call number Status Date due Barcode
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
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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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