Inventing Virginia : Sir Walter Raleigh and the Rhetoric of Colonization, 1584-1590.

Table of Contents -- Illustrations -- Preface -- 1: Introduction -- 2: Virginia as a Garden: Arthur Barlowe's "First Voyage Made to the Coasts of America" (1584) -- 3: Explaining a Failure: Ralph Lane's 1586 Account as Apologia -- 4: Thomas Hariot's A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia and the Possibilities of Settlement -- 5: The English Gaze, Virginia, and the Roanoke Indians: John White as Ethnographic Illustrator -- 6: Renaissance Surveying Techniques and the 1590 Hariot-White-de Bry Maps of Virginia -- 7: John White and the Renaissance Exploration Report as Personal Apologia -- 8: Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index.