A Voyage to Virginia in 1609
Two Narratives: Strachey's "True Reportory" and Jourdain's Discovery of the Bermudas
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 Jamestown-bound ship offer a gripping sea adventure from the earliest days of American colonization, but the dramatic events' even greater claim to fame is for serving as the inspiration for William Shakespeare's last major work, The Tempest. William Strachey was one of six hundred passengers sailing to Jamestown as part of the largest expedition yet to Virginia. A mere week from their destination, the fleet's flagship, Sea Venture, met a tropical storm and wrecked on one of the islands…
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Weitere Autoren: Jourdain, Silvester / Wright, Louis B. (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8139-3469-3
- EAN: 9780813934693
- Produktnummer: 22281848
- Verlag: University of Virginia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 144 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'052 KB
- Auflage: second edition
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Foreword by Alden T. Vaughan. Edited by Louis B. Wright. William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain
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