Thomas Harriot sailed with the colony Sir Walter Raleigh planted on Roanoke Island in 1585 and spent a year surveying the land. His report catalogues its marketable commodities, the crops and fruits that fed the settlers, and the dress, religion, towns and customs of the Algonquian peoples, in the 1590 Frankfurt edition published by Theodor de Bry.
A founding document of English America, written in Elizabethan spelling by one of the age’s finest mathematicians and essential for anyone curious about the lost colony. Download the free EPUB.