From one of the original leading ladies of historical fiction, this reissued classic captures the life of sir Walter Raleigh-a man of extraordinary ambition whose complex relationship with Elizabeth I followed him around the globe. Beloved historical novelist Norah Lofts was the queen of royal tales for generations. Loft's books are back, and in Here Was a Man, one of the greatest adventurers of the sixteenth century vividly and romantically comes...

Sixteenth century seaman Arthur Tresize purchases an old priory that is rumored to be cursed, and hardships plague him and succeeding generations.