[PDF.42zn] A New World: England's First View of America

A New World: England's First View of America

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 | #715169 in Books |  The University of North Carolina Press |  2007-03-26 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  .76 x8.72 x10.80l,2.37 | File type: PDF | 256 pages

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||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| A Comprehensive Collection of John White's Work|By Frank H. Sanders|This is an extraordinary (and the first) compilation of John White's drawings of people and animals in the New World. A gifted artist, White drew and painted what he saw with an eye that seems modern, despite the fact that he lived and worked 400 years ago.

This book is by far the best existing resou|From Publishers Weekly|Elizabethan artist John White, a gentleman of the court and a friend of Sir Walter Raleigh, made five voyages to the new world from 1584 to 1590 and provided England its first look at Native Americans and their home through his watercolor

This beautifully illustrated book reproduces in full the famous and rarely seen British Museum collection of drawings and watercolors made by John White, who in 1585 accompanied a group of English settlers sent by Sir Walter Raleigh to found a colony on Roanoke Island, North Carolina. White's duties included making visual records of everything he encountered that was then unknown in England, including plants, animals, and birds, as well as the human inhabitants, especial...

You easily download any file type for your device.A New World: England's First View of America   |  Kim Sloan. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.

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