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100 1 $aWright, Louis B.$q(Louis Booker),$d1899-$0(NOBLE)39886
245 14 $aThe Elizabethans' America;$ca collection of early reports by Englishmen on the New World, edited by Louis B. Wright.
260 $aCambridge,$bHarvard University Press,$c1965.
300 $axii, 295 p.$c23 cm.
490 0 $aThe Stratford-upon-Avon library
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references.
505 0 $aPurposes and policies to be observed in colonization (1578) -- England's time approaches for appropriating part of the new world (1582) -- Reasons for colonization (1585) -- John Hawkins investigates the coast of Florida (1565) -- Hawkins's and Drake's slaving expedition comes to grief at San Juan de Ulua (1567-8) -- David Ingram reports an incredible journey on foot from Mexico to Nova Scotia (1568-9) -- Henry Hawks reveals the rich commodities of New Spain (1572) -- Fish in Newfoundland at command of fishermen! (1578) -- Sir Humphrey Gilbert's tragic adventure in Newfoundland (1583) -- Poetical mariners praise a colonial propagandist (1583) -- Francis Drake on the California coast (1579) -- A new land like unto that of the golden age (1584-5) -- Glowing prospects for Raleigh's colony (1585) -- Harriot tells of the goddess of Virginia (1588) -- Return to Roanoke Island: the birth of Virginia Dare (1587) -- A promising description of New England (1602) -- Captain Waymouth explores the New England coast (1605) -- Seafarers' tall tales of Virginia (1605) -- Prudent advice to guide settles in establishing themselves (1606) -- Michael Drayton's Ode, "To the Virginian Voyage" (1606) -- George Percy gives an account of Jamestown and the early hardships (1607) -- Captain John Smith's explorations and troubles with the Indians (1607) -- Captain Newport reports gold and copper in Virginia (1607) -- Captain Newport, with some difficulty, crowns Powhatan (1608) -- Indians sound like Welshmen to Captain Wynne (1608) -- King James wants a flying squirrel from America (1610?) -- Strachey's description of the still vexed bermoothes (1610) -- Another version of the castaways on Bermuda (1610) -- Bermuda providentially saved for the English nation (1615) -- The Blessed Isles [The West Indies] (1619-21) -- The Virginia Indians (1612) -- Virginia's natural bounty (1613) -- A gossip reports on Virginia, including Pocahontas (1612-16) -- Pocahontas, lured to Jamestown by a stratagem, marries John Rolfe (1614) -- Rolfe marries Pocahontas to convert her, so he claims (1614) -- English democratic procedures established in America (1619) -- Promise of prosperity in Virginia (1619) -- King James tells how to ensure prosperity in America (1622) -- Fish, furs, and timber better than gold (1616) -- The pilgrims seek refuge in America and find a villain at Merrymount (1620-8) -- Profits in Virginia for shoemakers (1624) -- The health-preserving climate of New England (1630).
520 $aContains primary source material.
520 $aAn anthology of Elizabethan documents about the New World makes available a number of curious and informative statements and misstatements from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Includes commentary on Native Americans, climate, economics and wealth, exploration, colonization, and more.
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