Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590 - Documents to Illustrate English Voyages to North America Under

List of contents

1: The Muslim Conquest; 2: The Province of the Damascus Caliphate; 3: The Independent Umayyad Emirate; 4: The Grandeur of the Umayyad Caliphate; 5: Cultural Achievements Under the Umayyads; 6: The Collapse of Arab Rule; 7: The Berber Empires, the Almoravids; 8: The Berber Empires, the Almohads; 9: Cultural Greatness in Political Decline; 10: The Last of Islamic Spain; 11: The Significance of Islamic Spain

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DavidBeers Quinn

Summary

Volume I: Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative to January 1586/7 and includes a descriptive list of John White's drawings of the first colony; the narrative is continued to 1590 and later in the following volume, with which the main pagination is continuous. Volume II: Texts from Hakluyt's Principall Navigations (1589), together with the items added by him in 1600 and much additional material, a few documents in summary form. This volume takes the narrative from January 1586/7 to 1590 and later. Appended is an article on the language of the Carolina Algonkian tribes by James A. Geary, with a word-list; a chapter on the archaeology of the Roanoke settlements; a detailed account of the MS and printed sources; and a map of Ralegh's Virginia This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volumes first published in 1955.

Product details

• Authors: David B. Quinn, David Beers Quinn, DavidBeers Quinn, Professor David B. Quinn, Quinn David Beers
• Assisted by: David Beers Quinn (Editor), Professor David B. Quinn (Editor)
• Publisher: ASHGATE PUB CO
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.10.2010
• EAN: 9781409424918
• ISBN: 978-1-4094-2491-8
• Series: Hakluyt Society, Second Series; Hakluyt Society, Second Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; military history, HISTORY / Modern / 17th Century, maritime history, General & world history, c 1500 onwards to present day, British & Irish history, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, History of the Americas, History and Archaeology