Louis B. Wright - Böcker

A land whose people knew the joy of great victories and the sadness of bitter defeats, South Carolina gave us the first Americans cowboys, the cotton gin, and a long list of colorful military and political figures, from Swamp-Fox Marion to Pitchfork Ben Tillman and Cotton Ed Smith. Louis Wright's masterful telling of the story will fascinate residents and non-residents alike.

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 colonisation, 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 passengers sailing to Jamestown as part of the largest expedition yet to Virginia. A mere week from their destination, the fleet’s flagship, Sea Venture, met a tropical storm and wrecked on one of the islands of Bermuda. Strachey’s story might have ended there, but the castaways survived on the tropic island for eleven months and--in an act of almost incomprehensible resourcefulness--used local cedarwood, along with the wreckage of their own ship, to construct two seaworthy boats and continue successfully on their voyage.Strachey’s frankness about his fellow travellers, mutinies on the island, and the wretched condition in which they finally found Jamestown kept his document from being officially published initially, but it circulated privately in London, where one of its early readers was William Shakespeare. The second narrative in this volume, by Strachey’s shipmate Silvester Jourdain, covers the same episode but includes many fascinating details that Strachey’s does not, including some that made their way into The Tempest.Presented with modern spelling and punctuation, this great maritime drama and unforgettable firsthand look at the profound struggle to colonise America offers today’s reader the raw material that inspired Shakespeare’s masterpiece.

This volume, consists of research and critical studies in language and literature in memory of James Finch Royster (1880-1930). It has been edited by a committee of Professor Royster's former students and associates. The thirty-seven articles deal with philology, English literature, and literatures other than English.Originally published in 1931.A UNC Press Enduring Edition - UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.