Dangerous Days in Elizabethan England

by Terry Deary

Book Overview

The reign of Elizabeth I - a Golden Age? Try asking her subjects... Elizabethans did all they could to survive in an age of sin and bling, of beddings and beheadings, galleons and guns. Explorers set sail for new worlds, risking everything to bring back slaves, gold and the priceless potato. Elizabeth lined her coffers while her subjects lived in squalor with hunger, violence and misery as bedfellows. Shakespeare shone and yet the beggars, doxies...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780226373
• ISBN13: 9781780226378
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: George Weidenfeld & Nicholson
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.1" x 7.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary