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.

• Contents\ Preface\ Abbreviations\ List of Maps\ List of Illustrations\ The Devon Man\ The Favourite\ Roanoke\ The Outcast\ El Dorado\ The Rival\ The Court Poet\ The Suspect\ The Traitor\ The Prisoner\ The Tower Writings\ i The Tracts\ ii. The Great History\ iii. The Dialogue of Counsel\ The Last Voyage\ The Martyr\ The Legacy\ An Epilogue

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.

• Contents\ Preface\ Abbreviations\ List of Maps\ List of Illustrations\ The Devon Man\ The Favourite\ Roanoke\ The Outcast\ El Dorado\ The Rival\ The Court Poet\ The Suspect\ The Traitor\ The Prisoner\ The Tower Writings\ i The Tracts\ ii. The Great History\ iii. The Dialogue of Counsel\ The Last Voyage\ The Martyr\ The Legacy\ An Epilogue

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.

• Contents\ Preface\ Abbreviations\ List of Maps\ List of Illustrations\ The Devon Man\ The Favourite\ Roanoke\ The Outcast\ El Dorado\ The Rival\ The Court Poet\ The Suspect\ The Traitor\ The Prisoner\ The Tower Writings\ i The Tracts\ ii. The Great History\ iii. The Dialogue of Counsel\ The Last Voyage\ The Martyr\ The Legacy\ An Epilogue