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Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Together with the Manne
Paperback / softback
Main Details
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Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Together with the Manne
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) William Strachey
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Edited by Richard Henry Major
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| Series | Cambridge Library Collection - Hakluyt First Series |
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Paperback / softback | | Pages:274 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 216,Width 140 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9781108008037
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| Classifications | Dewey:917.55041 |
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| Audience | | Professional & Vocational | |
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| Illustrations |
6 Line drawings, black and white
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
Cambridge University Press
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| Imprint |
Cambridge University Press
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| Publication Date |
4 March 2010 |
| Publication Country |
United Kingdom
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Description
The publications of the Hakluyt Society (founded in 1846) made available edited (and sometimes translated) early accounts of exploration. The first series, which ran from 1847 to 1899, consists of 100 books containing published or previously unpublished works by authors from Christopher Columbus to Sir Francis Drake, and covering voyages to the New World, to China and Japan, to Russia and to Africa and India. Volume 6 (1849) is the first published edition of a collection of manuscript records gathered by William Strachey (1572?-1621), the first Secretary of the English colony of Virginia. It includes Strachey's own account of a shipwreck, which is believed by some scholars to have inspired passages in Shakespeare's The Tempest, and a list of words in Powhatan which is the only source of information about that language apart from the account of Captain John Smith.
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