"'The two works reprinted here, inaugurating a projected series of contemporary narratives relating to the settlement of Virginia, have been much discussed as s

To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication. The volume’s two accounts of the 1609 wreck of a

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"From the earliest records relating to Virginia, we learn the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed o