The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590 - Documents to illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584 (Hardcover, New Ed)

Volume I: Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative to January 1586/7 and includes a descriptive list of John White's drawings of the first colony; the narrative is continued to 1590 and later in the following volume, with which the main pagination is continuous. Volume II: Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative from January 1586/7 to 1590 and later. Appended is an article on the language of the Carolina Algonkian tribes by James A. Geary, with a word-list; a chapter on the archaeology of the Roanoke settlements; a detailed account of the MS and printed sources; and a map of Ralegh's Virginia This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1955.

General

Imprint:	Ashgate Publishing Limited
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Hakluyt Society, Second Series
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	1955
Authors:	David Beers Quinn
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	1046
Edition:	New Ed
ISBN-13:	978-1-4094-2491-8
Categories:	Books > Humanities > History > World history > 1500 to 1750 Books > History > World history > 1500 to 1750
LSN:	1-4094-2491-X
Barcode:	9781409424918

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