Relation of Virginia : : A Boy's Memoir of Life with the Powhatans and the Patawomecks / / Henry Spelman; ed. by Karen Ordahl Kupperman.

A memoir of one of America’s first adventurers, a young boy who acted as a link between the Jamestown colonists and the Patawomecks and Powhatans.“Being in displeasure of my friends, and desirous to see other countries, after three months sail we come with prosperouswinds in sight of Virginia.” So b...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2019]
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Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 16 black and white illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Relation of Virginia with Modernized Spelling
  • Relation of Virginia with Original Spelling, Cross- Outs, and Insertions
  • William Strachey on Spelman’s Account of the Patawomeck Creation Story and Afterlife
  • Samuel Purchas on His Interview with Spelman