Raleigh & Roanoke, the First English Colony in America, 1584-1590: The British Library Exhibit Hosted by the North Carolina Museum...
- ISBN-10
- 0865262160
- ISBN-13
- 9780865262164
- Category
- America
- Pages
- 116
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1985
- Authors
- British Library, Helen Wallis
Description
Despite the entreaties from friends such as George Chapman that Harriot should publish his findings in his many scientific fields of activity , his voluminous writings remained in manuscript . The disappearance of his Virginia papers ...
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