The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590: Documents to Illustrate the English Voyages to North America Under the Patent Granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584

ISBN-13: 9781409424918 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 1046 str.

David Beers Quinn

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Contents: Volume I: 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. Volume II: The 1587 Voyages; The failure to relieve the Virginia colony, 1588-9; The 1590 voyage and the search for the lost colony; Spain and the Roanoke voyages, 1584-8; Spain and Virginia, 1588-1600; Appendices; Index.

O autorze

DavidBeers Quinn