Description

A New World. Softcover, ISBN 9780714126500
Publisher: London: British Museum, 2007., 2007
Used. Quarto,256 pp.,colour plate, paperback. Presents a reproduction of the famous British Museum collection of drawings made by John White, who in 1585, accompanied a group of English settlers sent to found a colony in ‘Virginia’. This book explores White’s role as a colonist, surveyor and artist who recorded the plants and animals, and also provided a window on the native American culture.