Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana

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Sir Walter Ralegh's Discoverie of Guiana is written by Sir Walter Raleigh and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0904180875 (ISBN 10) and 9780904180879 (ISBN 13).

Sir Walter Ralegh's account of his 1595 expedition in search of the fabled empire of El Dorado was an immediate publishing success and is one of the most important pieces of Elizabethan travel literature. This edition presents the annotated texts of an unpublished copy of Ralegh's draft of The Discoverie of the Large, Rich, and Bewtifvl Empyre of Gviana and the subsequent printed versions. It demonstrates how the manuscript was altered for publication, to focus its appeal to investors in gold mines for which Ralegh had very little evidence.