title: The Roanoke Voyages, 1584-1590, Vol. 2: Documents to Illustrate the English Voyages to North America Under the Patent Granted to Walter Raleigh in 1584
author: David Beers Quinn
description: 1991 Dover Publications.  Clean, no names, marks or highlights.  Pictorial wraps clean and bright, spine uncreased.  Map attached at back.  Price sticker on ffep, edge wear.  Proceeds benefit Oro Valley Public Library.
zlib_text: THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA
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  THE DISCOVERY OF
  GUIANA
  By Sir Walter Raleigh
  
  THE DISCOVERY OF GUIANA
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  INTRODUCTORY NOTE
  Sir Walter Raleigh may be taken as the great typical figure of the age
  of Elizabeth. Courtier and statesman, soldier and sailor, scientist and man
  of letters, he engaged in almost all the main lines of public activity in his
  time, and was distinguished in them all.
  His father was a Devonshire gentleman of property, connected with
  many of the distinguished families of the south of England. Walter was
  born about 1552 and was educated at Oxford. He first saw military service
  in the Huguenot army in France in 1569, and in 1578 engaged, with his
  half-brother, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, in the first of his expeditions against
  the Spaniards. After some service in Ireland, he attracted the attention of
  the Queen, and rapidly rose to the perilous position of her chief favorite.
  With her approval, he fitted out two expeditions for the colonization of
  Virginia, neither of which did his 