Here Was a Man — Norah Lofts

He dreamed the impossible dream... From the time Walter Raleigh first entered the magic presence of Elizabeth I, he dreamed of carving out an empire in the New World to lay at her feet. But Elizabeth was equally determined to keep this handsome, witty young man at her side. -- Here is the stirring story of a man whose impossible dream took him from the courts of Europe to the jungles of South America, in search of empire he was never to attain...