Death of the fox [antikvár]

Note First of all, and finally I hope, this is a work of fiction. It is meant to be. It is not supposed to be in any sense a biography of Sir Walter Ralegh, although, naturally enough, there are a great many things about his life and many parts of it which are retold here. There are important and cele-brated aspects of his life, true and falsé, but part of his fame and of our history, which are not so much as mentioned in this story. There are any number of fine biographies of Ralegh, written by scholars of distinction. As far as we know now, most of the facts that can be gathered have been; and the biographies of Ralegh written in our time are excellent. I would especially recommend: Willard M. Wallace's Sir Walter Raleigh (1959), Margaret Irwin's That Great Lucifer (1960), A. L. Rowse's Ralegh and the Throctynortons (1962), Norman Lloyd Williams' Sir Walter Raleigh (1962), and, most recently, The Shep-herd of the Ocean (1969) by J. H. Adamson and H. F. Holland. And there are many other books and studies of the man and his works and of those imagined times, somé of them superb, done