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The Roanoke voyages, 1584-1590 : documents to illustrate the English voyages to North America under the patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584. Volume II / edited by David Beers Quinn.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Works issued by the Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 105.
- Hakluyt Society ; 2nd ser., no. 105
- Roanoke voyages, 1584-1590 ; v. 2
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Roanoke Colony.
- America--Discovery and exploration--British--Sources.
- America.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 497-1003 p. : ill., maps.
- Place of Publication:
- Surrey : Ashgate ; London : Hakluyt Society, 2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Originally published by The Hakluyt Society, 1952.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-11545-X
- 9786613115454
- 1-4094-1710-7
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