First Colonists: Documents on the Planting of the First English Settlements in North America, 1584-1590

Presented here are the the sixteenth-century narratives collected by Richard Hakluyt and the drawings by John White that offer remarkable firsthand evidence of the first voyages and attempts at colonization by English settlers on Roanoke Island.

This is a paperback edition of editors David B. and Alison M. Quinn's landmark Virginia Voyages from Hakluyt (Oxford, 1973). While reproducing the text portion of that earlier work, this edition includes a new preface by the Quinns.