Discoverers, Explorers, Settlers: The Diligent Writers of Early America

by Wayne Franklin

Book Overview

"Send those on land that will show themselves diligent writers." So urged the "sailing instructions" prepared for explorer Henry Hudson. With distinctive command of the primary texts created by such "diligent writers" as Columbus, William Bradford, and Thomas Jefferson, Wayne Franklin describes how the New World was created from their new words. The long verbal discovery of America, he asserts, entailed both advance and retreat, sudden insights and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226260720
• ISBN13: 9780226260723
• Release Date: October 1989
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"