A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia, by Thomas Harriot. The complete 1590 Theodor de Bry edition, with a new introd. by Paul Hulton

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621.

Series:

Rosenwald Collection reprint series.

Rosenwald Collection reprint series

Dover classics of travel, exploration, true adventure

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Roanoke Colony.

North Carolina--Description and travel--Early works to 1800.

North Carolina.

Indians of North America--North Carolina.

Indians of North America.

Physical Description:

xv, 91 pages : illustrations ; 31 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : Dover Publications, [1972].

Summary:

"In 1585-6, Sir Richard Grenville led the first English attempt to found a colony in North America. Although this settlement was not blessed with success as a colonization attempt, it was blessed by the presence of the great recording artist John White and the scientific adviser Thomas Harriot. Together, they gave the first report of its kind which can, as Paul Hulton says in the introduction, justifiably be described as scientific in both text and illustration. This. is the unabridged representation of their important work."-- from back cover.

Notes:

Includes (as did the original T. de Bry ed., which formed pt. 1 of his collection "America") 28 plates by T. de Bry from drawings by J. White, with special t.p.: The true pictures and fashions of the people in that parte of America now called Virginia.

Includes bibliographical references (pages xiv-xv).

Contains:

White, John, active 1585-1593. Trve pictvres and fashions of the people in that parte of America novv called Virginia.

Other Format:

Online version: Harriot, Thomas, 1560-1621. Briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia.

ISBN:

0486210928

9780486210926

OCLC:

381051