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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 (Second Series 105), with which
the main pagination is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand
hardback edition of the volume first published in 1955.
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 follows on from Second
Series 194, with a continuous main pagination, taking 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; and a detailed account of the MS and printed sources.
This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first
published in 1955. Owing to technical constraints the map of
Raleigh's Virginia, 1584-90 which appeared in the original edition
of the book is not included.
Quinn's study brings together the results of his nearly fifty years
of research on the voyages outfitted by Sir Walter Raleigh and the
efforts to colonize Roanoke Island. It is a fascinating book, rich
in details of the colonists' experiences in the New World. Quinn
""solves"" the mystery of the Lost Colony with the controversial
conclusion that many of the colonists lived with the Powhatans
until the first decade of the seventeenth century when they were
massacred. |Establishes the distinctive and influential role of
small towns as an important component in the shaping of antebellum
southern culture. Based on documentary materials from middle
Tennessee.
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