By Kim Sloan
John White's watercolours of the plants, fauna and North Carolina Algonquians he encountered at the excursion despatched via Walter Raleigh in 1585 are a number of the maximum treasures of the British Museum; engraved via Theodor de Bry in 1590 to demonstrate Thomas Harriot's A Briefe and actual file of the hot stumbled on Land of Virginia, they knowledgeable and formed Europe's view of the USA and its humans for the subsequent centuries. This quantity publishes a truly profitable interdisciplinary convention held in reference to the exhibition concentrated on John White, 'A New international: England's first view of America', with audio system from Europe, the us and Britain, them all specialists of their fields. the various and wide-ranging papers supplied contextual and distinct info now not coated within the exhibition catalogue and supply us with new methods of seeing and realizing either the ecu and local American views.
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49. R. Hakluyt, The principal nauigations, voyages, traffiques and discoueries of the English nation made by sea or ouer-land, to the remote and farthest distant quarters of the earth, at any time within the compasse of these 1600. yeres: deuided into three seuerall volumes, according to the positions of the regions, whereunto they were directed. The first volume containeth the worthy discoueries, &c. of the English ... The second volume comprehendeth the principall nauigations ... to the south and south-east parts of the world ...
23. R. Smith, ‘Mouthpieces: Native American Voices in Thomas Harriot’s True and Brief Report of ... Virginia, Gaspar Pérez de Thomas Harriot’s A briefe and true report 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 Villagrá’s Historia de la Nuevo México, and J. Smith’s General History of Virginia’, New Literary History, 32(3), 2001, 501–517. Supra n. 7, ‘Of the nature and the manners of the people’, 24. , 13–16. , 15. This section of Harriot’s narrative has achieved a certain notoriety in literary studies thanks to S.
Abrahams, ‘Joachim Gaunse: a mining incident in the reign of Queen Elizabeth’, Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society, 4, 1903, 83–103. N. Hume, The Virginia adventure: Roanoke to James Towne: an archaeological and historical odyssey, Charlottesville, VA, and London, 1997, 73–89. Evidence of Gans’ explicitly alchemical interests can be seen in British Library MS Sloane 3748, an alchemical notebook owned by Clement Draper of London, which includes a piece on Beginning on f. 26v is ‘The Greatt Redd Worke taught in ye prisson of King’s Bench’ (ff.