Louis B Wright
Author
Series
Folger volume 1
Publisher
Published for the Folger Shakespeare Library by Cornell University Press
Pub. Date
[1962]
Author
Publisher
Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture at Williamsburg, Va., by the University of North Carolina Press
Pub. Date
1947
Description
Written and published in London in 1705, this was one of the earliest printed English-language histories about North America by an author born there. Robert Beverley was a scion of Virginia's planter elite, ambitious and at odds with royal governors in the colony. As a native-born American he provided English readers with the first full account of the province's past, natural history, Indians, and current politics and society. This new edition places...