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

by Silvester Jourdain and William Strachey

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 greater claim to fame is for serving as the inspiration for William Shakespeare's last major work, The Tempest.

William Strachey was one of six hundred...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813934664
• ISBN13: 9780813934662
• Release Date: June 2013
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 7.3"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher