This hard to find softcover copy of A Voyage to Virginia in 1609 includes Two Narratives:

- Strachey’s “True Reportery”

- Jourdain’s “Discovery of the Bermudas.”

The small book is in very good vintage condition and is tightly bound, appearing unread. Signs of its age include some shelving wear to the cover, snd done light foxing / discoloration spots to the cover and interior. Otherwise, bright, crisp, and clean.

This is from the 1967 Third Printing of the 1964 First Edition by The University Press of Virginia. Published for The Association for the Preservation of Virginia Antiquities with the assistance of the Jamestown Foundation.

From the rear cover:

“The two works reprinted here, inaugurating a projected series of contemporary narratives relating to the settlement of Virginia, have been much discussed as the sources of Shakespeare’s ‘The Tempest.’ Both William Strachey and Silvester Jourdain were passengers on the ill-fated ‘Sea Venture,’ which wrecked in 1609 within sight of one of the Bermuda Islands when this vessel, with eight others in the expedition led by Sir Thomas Gates, was on its way to Jamestown. Aside, from their Virginian and Shakespearean interest, the narratives that Strachey and Jourdain wrote are both intrinsically fascinating documents and have a significant place in the voyage literature of their day.”

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