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 2010
552 Pages
by
Hakluyt Society
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: 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.
Biography
David Beers Quinn
