John Smith, The General History of Virginia, New England, and the Summer Isles (1624)
Date
1624
Author
John
Smith
Note: 14/10/2005
Book title
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles with the names of the Adventurers, Planters, and Governours from their first beginning. An: 1584. to this present 1624. With the Procedings of those Severall Colonies and the Accidents that befell them in all their Journyes and Discoveries. Also the Maps and Descriptions of all those Countryes, their Commodities, people, Government, Customes, and Religion yet knowne. Divided into sixe Bookes
Publication place
London
Printer
John Dawson and John Haviland
Publisher
Michael Sparke
Text type
printed book
Genre
Bilingual and polyglot dictionaries, glossaries, and vocabularies
Subject area
Algonkian
Summary
This collection of Smith's previous works includes a 137-word Powhatan Algonkian vocabulary in Book II, a reduced selection of the vocabulary in the 1612 Map of Virginia
Language
headwords: Algonquin
explanations: English
explanations: English
Ka katorawinos yowo. What call you this
explanations: English
explanations: English
Ka katorawinos yowo. What call you this
Extent
40
Word-group
type: alphabetical
Word-entry
type: headword
Alston
XIV.530
STC
22790
Other editions
1625: STC 22790a;
1626: STC 22790b;
1627: STC 22790c;
1632: STC 22790d
1632:
1626: STC 22790b;
1627: STC 22790c;
1632: STC 22790d
1632:
Criticisms
Barbour, Philip L. "The Earliest Reconnaissance of the Chesapeake Bay Area: Captain John Smith's Map and Indian Vocabulary." The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 79-80 (1971-72): 280-302, 21-51.
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Salmon, Vivian. "Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics." Historiographia Linguistica 19.1 (1992): 25-56. view record
Salmon, Vivian. "Thomas Harriot (1560-1621) and the English Origins of Algonkian Linguistics." Historiographia Linguistica 19.1 (1992): 25-56. view record
