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A 3 pages book review on Big Chief Elizabeth by historian Giles Milton, which describes how the first English colonies in North America came about. It begins with the voyages of John Cabot in 1497 and Richard Hore in 1536, giving considerable attention to Sir Walter Raleigh's unsuccessful endeavor to found a colony on Roanoke Island. It also helps the reader conceptualize the 1616 success of the Virginia Company in creating Jamestown, as this text brings alive the drama of those years and the hopes and yearnings of colonizers, who, more often as not encountered death and hardship rather than the riches and glory that drew them on the adventure of coming the New World. The writer points out the text's strengths and weaknesses. No additional sources cited.
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1497 and Richard Hore in 1536, giving considerable attention to Sir Walter Raleighs unsuccessful endeavor to found a colony on Roanoke Island. It also helps the reader conceptualize the 1616
success of the Virginia Company in creating Jamestown, as this text brings alive the drama of those years and the hopes and yearnings of colonizers, who, more often as not
encountered death and hardship rather than the riches and glory that drew them on the adventure of coming the New World. Written in a style that is more reminiscent
of an action-adventure novel that a history text, Miltons account is both entertaining and informative to the non-historian, general reader. The sections of the book that are devoted to the
swashbuckling saga of Francis Drake and the pageantry and intrigue of the Elizabethan court are particularly enthralling and constitute one of the major strengths of the volume. While much of
the book concerns colonial America, especially the ventures at Roanoke and Jamestown, Milton is perhaps at his best when describing Raleigh (Milton uses the Elizabeth spelling of Ralegh), Elizabeths court
and Sir Walters efforts to woo the queen into supporting his activities in forming a colonizing expedition. However, the strength of providing an intriguing glimpse of European background to
Englands first efforts at colonization is also related to what may be considered to be the books principal flaw, which is an overly sympathetic treatment and emphasis on Raleigh. As
the text is a virtual paean to Raleigh, this attitude colors the presentation of events. For example, the failure of the Roanoke colony and the disappearance of its settlers is
presented less as a stark tragedy to the colonizers and more as an affront to Raleigh, whose choice of men to head his expedition proved to be lacking. For
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