An Elizabethan adventurer
O'Sullivan, Dan2021
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Anthony Sherley (1565-1633) was one of three brothers from a Sussex gentry family, whose adventures abroad fascinated their contemporaries. Their doings were celebrated and exaggerated in printed pamphlets and a play on the London stage, but are scarcely known today. Anthony was a soldier fighting in France and the Netherlands, and then an unsuccessful privateer, before his patron, the earl of Essex, chose him to lead a group on a mission to Ferrara, which proved abortive. Sherley then undertook on his own initiative to take his followers on a highly risky journey across Turkey to Persia. This biography is more sympathetic than previous ones, and discusses his self-fashioning and his belief in his personal honour, both of which might account for some of his misdemeanours, especially after the death of his patron.
Main title:
An Elizabethan adventurer / Dan O'Sullivan.
Author:
O'Sullivan, Dan, author
Imprint:
Barnsley : Pen & Sword History, 2021.
Collation:
216 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:
9781399007429 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
942.055092920 SHER
Language:
English
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BRN:
712684
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