A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia

Includes slipcase. A facsimile edition of the 1588 Quarto, with an Introduction by the late Randolph G. Adams. "Thomas Harriot (Oxford, c. 1560 – London, 2 July 1621), also spelled Harriott, Hariot or Heriot, was an English astronomer, mathematician, ethnographer and translator who made advances within the scientific field. He is sometimes credited with the introduction of the potato to the British Isles.[1] Harriot was the first person to make a drawing of the Moon through a telescope, on 26 July 1609, over four months before Galileo.[2] He made only one expedition, around 1585-86, and spent some time in the New World visiting Roanoke Island off the coast of North Carolina, expanding his knowledge by improving his understanding of the Carolina Algonquian language. As the only Englishman who had learned Algonquin prior to the voyage, Harriot was vital to the success of the expedition.[6] Hariot smoked tobacco before Raleigh, and may have taught him to do so.[7] His account of the voyage, named A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, was published in 1588 (probably written a year before)."