THE ELIZABETHANS' AMERICA: A Collection Of Early Reports By Englishmen On The New World.

Edité par Cambridge MA. 1966. Harvard Univ. Press / Stratford~Upon~Avon Library

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tan cloth hardbound 8vo. 8º (octavo). dustwrapper in protective plastic book jacket cover. fine cond. binding square & tight. covers clean. edges clean. contents free of markings. dustwrapper in near fine cond. rubbed, tiny corner tear, not price clipped. nice clean copy. no library markings or store stamps, no stickers or bookplates, no names, no inking , no underlining, no remainder markings etc ~. second printing. xii+295p. endnotes. 41 anecdotal accounts. american history. biography. memoirs. english history. british empire. exploration. colonial america. ~The New World held a special fascination for English explorers in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. America was a vast unknown, and the stories of its riches that were brought back to England whetted the eagerness of all: "For the Elizabethans, the vast lands across the Atlantic were regions of mystery and wonder, where anything might be possible. There one might find hoards of gold, silver, pearls, carbuncles, and rubies: in those regions grew spice trees and herbs of such potency that they could heal all the ills of mankind. Nothing was too strange, wonderful, outlandish, or tempting to be believed about the New World, and the Elizabethans avidly read such accounts as they could procure and listened to tales, tall and otherwise, told by returning travellers. This anthology of Elizabethan documents about the New Wor ld makes available a number of curious and informative statements and misstatements from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Fact, phantasy, poetry, and romance; Virginia, New England, Nova Scotia, Bermuda; Indians, climate, hardship, and gossip are all mixed helter~skelter, hither~thither in a delightful melange . Spelling, punctuation, and capitalization, but not grammar and language, have been modernized." ~Journal of American History. "An elegant anthology [that] makes not only agreeable reading but gives ground for reflection . This is a charming book." Times Literary Supplement. …

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THE ELIZABETHANS' AMERICA: A Collection Of Early Reports By Englishmen On The New World.
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Wright, Louis B. (Edited By)
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Cambridge MA. 1966. Harvard Univ. Press / Stratford~Upon~Avon Library
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