This is a gripping narrative of the first thirty years of Elizabeth I’s reign that culminated in the defeat of the Armada and saw England become a significant world power. Elizabeth had an unusual personal magnetism and political genius. Arthur Bryant describes how she used these rare attributes to inspire her people, start the first colonial plantations in America and found the East India Company – the genesis of the United States and British Empire. England was put on the map of the world during the reign of this important monarch.

hardback with dust jacket  – very small tear to dust cover – otherwise in good condition in view of age ( 1980) – first edition