Robin Hood: The True Story of the Life & Time of the Outlaw Hero

If I asked you how many Robin Hoods you could name, what would the list be like?

I'm sure you'd reel off a whole host of famous actors, like Errol Flynn, Douglas Fairbanks, Kevin Costner, Michael Praed, Sean Connery, and John Cleese, to name but six. All of these men have played the role of Robin Hood in various television and movie adaptations of the famous story.

But that's not what I meant.

I'm talking about Robin Hood himself; the ever popular and ever noble outlaw hero who robbed from the...