A Voyage to Virginia in 1609 Two Narratives: Strachey's "True Reportory" and Jourdain's Discovery of the Bermudas

• Main Author: William Strachey, Silvester Jourdain
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Charlottesville University of Virginia Press 2013
• Edition: 2
• Subjects: 17th century; Bermuda Islands; British; Colonial Period (1600-1775); Colonial period, ca. 1600–1775; Discovery and exploration; Early works to 1800; HISTORY; Sea Venture (Ship); Shipwrecks; United States; Virginia

To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication. The volume's two accounts of the 1609 wreck of a Jamestown-bound ship offer a gripping sea adventure from the earliest days of American colonization, but the dramatic events' even g...