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QUINN, David Beers. (Ed.). - The Roanoke voyages 1584-1590. Documents to illustrate the English voyages to North America under the patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584.

Title: The Roanoke voyages 1584-1590. Documents to illustrate the English voyages to North America under the patent granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584.
Description: London, 1952-1955. 2 volumes. Cloth. With folding map and 11 plates. XXXV,VI,1004 pp. Hakluyt Society, 2nd series, 104. - The Roanoke Voyages were attempts by Sir Walter Raleigh, under his 1584 patent from Queen Elizabeth I, to establish an English colony in the New World on the coast of present-day North Carolina between 1584 and 1590. Although Raleigh was unable to establish successful English colonies in America under his 1584 charter, the Roanoke voyages and colonies were valuable precursors to the eventual formation of a permanent English colony at Jamestown in 1607.

Keywords: America Hakluyt Society

Price: EUR 82.50 = appr. US$ 89.66 Seller: Gert Jan Bestebreurtje Rare Books (NVvA/ILAB)
- Book number: 34627