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Author : Richard Hakluyt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Voyages to the Virginia Colonies written by Richard Hakluyt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1986 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samtidige beskrivelser af rejser til Newfoundland og Virginia i perioden 1583-1590
Author : Louis Booker Wright
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 148 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book A Voyage to Virginia in 1609 written by Louis Booker Wright and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "'The two works reprinted here, inaugurating a projected series of contemporary narratives relating to the settlement of Virginia, have been much discussed as sources of Shakespeare's 'The Tempest.' Both William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain were passengers on the ill-fated 'Sea Venture,' which wrecked in 1609 within sight of one of the Bermuda Islands when this vessel, with eight others in the expedition led by Sir Thomas Gates, was on its way to Jamestown. Aside from their Virginian and Shakespearean interest, the narratives that Strachey and Jourdain wrote are both intrinsically fascinating documents and have a significant place in the voyage literature of their day.' So reads the preface to this first modern-spelling edition of these absorbing accounts. The editor, Louis B. Wright, is Director of the Folger Shakespeare Library. He is author and editor of many book son American and English history and is eminently well qualified to evaluate and present these seventeenth-century writers to a modern audience."--Pg. [4] of cover.
Author : Philip L. Barbour
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1317026829
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Jamestown Voyages under the First Charter, 1606-1609 written by Philip L. Barbour and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1606, 120 emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. Thus the first permanent English colony was established in America. During the first few years, the colony was beset by extreme hardship. The local Indians regarded the settlement as infringement of their territory and were hostile to the settlers. Famine, plague and internal dissension also took their toll. The settlers relied for survival on provisions and men brought from England. The ships travelled the long route by way of the Canaries and the Caribbean and were always in danger of attack by the Spanish. In these 2 volumes Mr Barbour has collected all the known documents relating to the Jamestown voyages during the life of the original charter. He has annotated them and translated those written in languages other than English. In his introduction he reviews the early sources, in particular books about the early history of the colony written by emigrants. This collection gives a graphic and fascinating contemporary picture of the first few years of the colony out of which the United States was destined to grow. Includes a combined list of names of the original planters up to about 1 October 1608. The main pagination of this and the following volume (Second Series 137) is continuous. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1969.
Author : Allen Bryant Nichols
Publisher : Sea Venture LLC
ISBN 13 : 0615140017
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)
Download or read book Captain Christopher Newport written by Allen Bryant Nichols and published by Sea Venture LLC. This book was released on 2007 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "In this first full-length biography of Christopher Newport (1561-1617), Nichols portrays, in carefully research detail, the adventurous life on the high seas of the courageous sea captain who founded the Jamestown Colony in Virginia. As a young man, Newport sailed with Sir Francis Drake in the daring attack on the Spanish fleet at Cadiz and participated in England's defeat of the Spanish Armada. During the war with Spain, Newport seized fortunes of Spanish and Portuguese treasure in fierce sea battles in the West Indies as a privateer for Queen Elizabeth I. He led more attacks on Spanish shipping and settlements than any other English privateer. While leading his men aboard an enemy ship off the coast of Cuba, his right arm was 'strooken off', and Newport was referred to thereafter as, 'Christopher Newport of the one hand.' Admiral of Virginia, Newport led the fleet of colonists who established the first permanent English settlement in the New World. He chose the site for Jamestown, led the initial exploration for King James, and negotiated peacefully with Chief Powhatan's Indian tribes. Newport repeatedly rescued colonists from famine with four resupply voyages. When the 'Sea Venture' was shipwrecked on Bermuda during a hurricane, Newport organized 150 colonists to build two new vessels for their deliverance to Jamestown. In his later career, Newport led three long trading voyages to the Far East for the East India Company. He brought the first English ambassadors to Persia and India. His many voyages laid the foundations for the evolution of the British Empire. Captain Christopher Newport was an outstanding navigator, stern but compassionate sea captain, and legendary leader of men." -- Page 4 of cover.
Author : Earl Swift
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813937213
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)
Download or read book Journey on the James written by Earl Swift and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2014-12-19 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From its beginnings as a trickle of icy water in Virginia's northwest corner to its miles-wide mouth at Hampton Roads, the James River has witnessed more recorded history than any other feature of the American landscape -- as home to the continent's first successful English settlement, highway for Native Americans and early colonists, battleground in the Revolution and the Civil War, and birthplace of America's twentieth-century navy. In 1998, restless in his job as a reporter for the Norfolk Virginian-Pilot, Earl Swift landed an assignment traveling the entire length of the James. He hadn't been in a canoe since his days as a Boy Scout, and he knew that the river boasts whitewater, not to mention man-made obstacles, to challenge even experienced paddlers. But reinforced by Pilot photographer Ian Martin and a lot of freeze-dried food and beer, Swift set out to immerse himself -- he hoped not literally -- in the river and its history. What Swift survived to bring us is this engrossing chronicle of three weeks in a fourteen-foot plastic canoe and four hundred years in the life of Virginia. Fueled by humor and a dauntless curiosity about the land, buildings, and people on the banks, and anchored by his sidekick Martin -- whose photographs accompany the text -- Swift points his bow through the ghosts of a frontier past, past Confederate forts and POW camps, antebellum mills, ruined canals, vanished towns, and effluent-spewing industry. Along the banks, lonely meadowlands alternate with suburbs and power plants, marinas and the gleaming skyscrapers of Richmond's New South downtown. Enduring dunkings, wolf spiders, near-arrest, channel fever, and twenty-knot winds, Swift makes it to the Chesapeake Bay. Readers who accompany him through his Journey on the James will come away with the accumulated pleasure, if not the bruises and mud, of four hundred miles of adventure and history in the life of one of America's great watersheds.
Author : Philip L. Barbour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (799 download)
Download or read book The Jamestown Voyages Under the First Charter, 1606-1609 written by Philip L. Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Beers Quinn
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469611171
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book Set Fair for Roanoke written by David Beers Quinn and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2017-10-10 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quinn's study brings together the results of his nearly fifty years of research on the voyages outfitted by Sir Walter Raleigh and the efforts to colonize Roanoke Island. It is a fascinating book, rich in details of the colonists' experiences in the New World. Quinn "solves" the mystery of the Lost Colony with the controversial conclusion that many of the colonists lived with the Powhatans until the first decade of the seventeenth century when they were massacred.
Author : William Broaddus Cridlin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 ( download)
Download or read book A History of Colonial Virginia written by William Broaddus Cridlin and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Morris Birkbeck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Notes on a Journey in America written by Morris Birkbeck and published by . This book was released on 1817 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Smith
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015513174
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (131 download)
Download or read book The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles written by John Smith and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : William Strachey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781104749828
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (498 download)
Download or read book For the Colony in Virginia Britannia (1612) written by William Strachey and published by . This book was released on 2009-07 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Author : John Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Capt. John Smith written by John Smith and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip L. Barbour
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780521010276
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (12 download)
Download or read book The Jamestown Voyages Under the First Charter, 1606-1609 written by Philip L. Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Philip L. Barbour
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 9781409426240
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (262 download)
Download or read book The Jamestown Voyages Under the First Charter, 1606-1609 written by Philip L. Barbour and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2010-10 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In December 1606, 120 emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. Thus the first permanent English colony was established in America. During the first few years, the colony was beset by extreme hardship. The local Indians regarded the settlement as infringement of their territory and were hostile to the settlers. Famine, plague and internal dissension also took their toll. The settlers relied for survival on provisions and men brought from England. The ships travelled the long route by way of the Canaries and the Caribbean and were always in danger of attack by the Spanish. In these 2 volumes Mr Barbour has collected all the known documents relating to the Jamestown voyages during the life of the original charter. He has annotated them and translated those written in languages other than English. In his introduction he reviews the early sources, in particular books about the early history of the colony written by emigrants. This collection gives a graphic and fascinating contemporary picture of the first few years of the colony out of which the United States was destined to grow. Includes a combined list of names of the original planters up to about 1 October 1608. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1969.
Author : Candice F. Ransom
Publisher : LernerClassroom
ISBN 13 : 0761371338
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (613 download)
Download or read book Why Did English Settlers Come to Virginia? written by Candice F. Ransom and published by LernerClassroom. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discusses the Jamestown settlement and its part in early United States history.
Author : Martha W. McCartney
Publisher : Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN 13 : 9780806317748
Total Pages : 840 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)
Download or read book Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers, 1607-1635 written by Martha W. McCartney and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 2007 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "From the earliest records relating to Virginia, we learn the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their spouses and children, their occupations and their position in the colony, their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives, all gathered together in the handy format of a biographical dictionary" -- publisher website (January 2008).
Author : Charles Campbell
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230203638
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)
Download or read book History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia written by Charles Campbell and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1860 edition. Excerpt: ... HISTORY OF THE COLONY ASO ANCIENT DOMINION OF VIRGINIA. CHAPTER I. 140S-1001. Early Voyages of Discovery--Sir Humphrey Gilbert--Walter Raleigh--Expedition of Am&das and Barlow--They land on Wocokon Island--Return to England--The New Country named Virginia--Grenville's Expedition--Colony of Roanoke--Lane, Governor--The Colony abandoned--Tobacco--Grenville returns to Virginia--Leaves a small Colony at Roanoke--Sir Walter Raleigh sends out another Expedition--City of Raleigh chartered--White, Governor-- Roanoke found deserted--Virginia Dare, 6rst Child born in the Colony-- White returns for Supplies--The Armada--Raleigh assigns the Colony to a Company--White returns to Virginia--Finds the Colony extinct--Death of Sir Richard Grenville--Oosnold's Voyage to New England. The discoveries attributed by legendary story to Madoc, the Welsh prince, have afforded a theme for the creations of poetry; those of the Northmen of Iceland, better authenticated, still engage the dim researches of antiquarian curiosity. To Columbus belongs the glory of having made the first certain discovery of the New World, in the year 1492; but it was the good fortune of the Cabots to be the first who actually reached the main land. In 1497, John Cabot, a Venetian merchant, who had become a resident of Bristol in England, with his son Sebastian, a native of that city, having obtained a patent from Henry the Seventh, sailed under his flag and discovered the main continent of America, amid the inhospitable rigors of the wintry North. It was subsequent to this that Columbus, in his third voyage, set his foot on the main land of the South. In the following year, Sebastian Cabot again crossed the Atlantic, and coasted from the fifty-eighth degree of north latitude, along the...
