The First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America, 1584-1590David B. Quinn, Alison M. Quinn North Carolina Department of Cultural Resources, Division of Archives and History, 1982 - History - 199 pages Sixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and drawings by John White offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization of the New World by the English. |
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