The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia

The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia, published by Hakluyt Society

The Historie of Travaile Into Virginia Britannia[note 1] is a 1619 historical book by William Strachey, one of the most prominent primary sources on the earliest English colonization efforts in North America. He was a settler at Jamestown, and wrote extensively of the Powhatan civilization. Because of its critiques of the London Company, it did not receive publication in its own time; delayed until 1849 when the Hakluyt Society finally pressed and released the text. It was also feared to have a negative contrast with John Smith's own book, published in the same year.[2]

  1. ^ Strachey, William (May 29, 2010). Major, Richard Henry (ed.). "Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia; Expressing the Cosmographie and Comodities of the Country, Together with the Manners and Customes of the People: As Collected by William Strachey, Gent., the First Secretary of the Colony". Cambridge University Press – via Cambridge University Press.
  2. ^ "The Historie of Travaile into Virginia Britannia". Encyclopedia Virginia.


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