Inventing Virginia : Sir Walter Raleigh and the rhetoric of colonization, 1584-1590 /
Moran, Michael G.
New York ; Oxford : Peter Lang,
c2007.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [241]-253) and index.
Virginia as a garden : Arthur Barlowe's "first voyage made to the coastes of America" (1584) -- Explaining a failure : Ralph Lane's 1586 Account as apologia -- Thomas Hariot's A briefe and true report of the new found land of Virginia and the possibilities of settlement -- The English gaze, Virginia, and the Roanoke Indians : John White as ethnographic illustrator -- Renaissance surveying techniques and the 1590 Hariot-White-de Bry maps of Virginia -- John White and the Renaissance exploration report as personal apologia -- Conclusion.
Raleigh, Walter, Sir, 1552?-1618.
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