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Publication

1995-09-29 - Cambridge University Press

Language

English

Word Count

81,750 words, Guess

Page Count

327 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

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First Sentence

In February 1597, after learning of the initial discussions of the naval operation that would become known as the 'Islands Voyage', Sir Francis Vere observed to Sir Robert Sidney: 'Of my Lord of Essex's going to sea, I am sorry to hear, unless I could persuade myself that before his going he would furnish the court with offices, for that it will else prove his adversaries work whilst he is absent.'

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