Undreamed Shores England’s Wasted Empire In America.
£20.00
Publisher
Book Club Associates.
Place
London
Date
1974
Item Description
8vo. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. 186 pp. Bound in original pink cloth, gilt, in unclipped dust wrapper with sunned inside edges; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 8 colour plates, 3 chars and 35 black and white text figures. Well illustrated account of England's failure to colonise in the America during the reign of Elizabeth in the sixteenth century. It includes chapters on the attempts of Captain Thomas Stukeley, Sir Humphrey Gilbert and Sir Walter Raleigh. By historian Michael Foss (b.1937). Book Club edition.
[Stock No. 29913]
