The General Historie of Virginia, New England & the Summer Isles (Vol. I) / Together with the True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and a Sea Grammar
John Smith
History
Book language: English
386 pages
A historical account by Captain John Smith, combining chronicles of early English settlement in Virginia, New England and the Summer Isles with his own travels, adventures and a sea grammar. It offers a firsthand perspective on colonization, exploration and maritime life in the early colonial era.
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{Transcriber's Note: British, archaic and inconsistent spellings have been left as in the original, as have capitalizations. A few obvious typographical errors have been changed. Margin notes, except when they refer to either the whole paragraph or the beginning of the paragraph, are indicated where they occur in the text with {MN} and inserted in full at the beginning of the paragraph to which they refer. Material in square or round brackets are as in the original; transcriber's notes are in curly brackets. Several maps and illustrations are mentioned in the text, but none appear in the original book, nor does the index. Pagination of the 1624 edition, which this edition places in the margins, have been left interlinear to more nearly indicate their original placement.}
The Travels of Captaine John Smith In Two Volumes Volume I GLASGOW PRINTED AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS BY ROBERT MACLEHOSE & COMPANY LTD. FOR JAMES MACLEHOSE AND SONS, PUBLISHERS TO THE UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW MACMILLAN AND CO. LTD. LONDON THE MACMILLAN CO. NEW YORK THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA TORONTO SIMPKIN, HAMILTON AND CO. LONDON MACMILLAN AND BOWES CAMBRIDGE DOUGLAS AND FOULIS EDINBURGH MCMVII
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New England & The Summer Isles Together with The True Travels, Adventures and Observations, and A Sea Grammar By CAPTAINE JOHN SMITH Sometimes Governour in those Countryes VOLUME I Glasgow James MacLehose and Sons Publishers to the University New York: The Macmillan Company MCMVII
THE TABLE Page Publishers' Note, xvii The Epistle Dedicatorie to the Duchesse of Richmond and Lenox, xxii A Preface of foure Poynts, xxv Panegyrick Verses, xxvii The Contents of the generall History, divided into six Books: THE FIRST BOOKE. A.D. 1170 1488 1492 The first voyage to the new World, by Madock Prince of Wales. The next by Hanno Prince of Carthage, and how it was offred K. Hen.7. by Chr. Cullumbus, that undertooke it for the Spanyards. 1492. 1
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