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The First Colonists

Hakluyt’s Voyages To North America

A distinguished Folio Society edition of The First Colonists: Hakluyt’s Voyages to North America by A. L. Rowse, complete with its original slipcase. Rowse presents a vivid, accessible narrative drawn from Richard Hakluyt’s essential accounts of the earliest English ventures across the Atlantic, capturing the ambitions, hardships and uncertainties that shaped these first attempts at settlement. The book highlights the explorers’ encounters, observations and struggles as they sought to establish a foothold in an unfamiliar world. Combining Hakluyt’s invaluable primary material with Rowse’s clear historical insight, it offers an engaging portrait of the beginnings of English America.

Features;

• Publisher Folio Society Second Edition, London; 1987
• Buff Coloured Cloth Blocked With Compass Motif Hardback, 142 pp
• Illustrations in colour by John White
• Size 295 x 230mm, 1.3kg

Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy

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