The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590 : Documents to illustrate the English Voyages to North America under the Patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584 Volume I (Hakluyt Society, Second Series)

Quinn, David Beers (EDT)

Ashgate Publishing Limited（2010/07発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 552 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781409414704
• DDC分類 973.17

Full Description

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.

Contents

Contents: Preface; Introduction; The discovery of Raleigh's Virginia; Preparations for the 1585 voyage; The 1585 Virginia voyage; The first colony: Lane and Drake, 1585-6; The first colony: Thomas Hariot; The first colony: John White; The 1586 ventures.