1st Edition

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

Edited By David Beers Quinn Copyright 2011

    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.

    1: Introduction: A Critical Assessment of The Material; 2: The Discovery of Raleigh’s Virginia, 1584; 3: Preparations for the 1585 Voyage; 4: The 1585 Virginia Voyage; 5: The First Colony: Lane And Drake, 1585–6; 6: The First Colony: Thomas Hariot; 7: The First Colony: John White Foreword; 8: The 1586 Ventures

    Biography

    David Beers Quinn