The History and Present State of Virginia: A Selection

Minor edge and corner wear; no dj; lightly scuffed and scratched; corners are gently bumped and rubbed; some light shelf wear; ex-library with the usual library markings; overall a nice used copy! Orange cloth with silver lettering on the spine. 171 historical and informative pages! "A danger confronts the enthusiast who wants to persuade friends to read Robert Beverley's History of Virginia. The urge persists to talk about the book as a significant historical document, a classic of American literature, or a pioneering study for anthropologists and naturalists. it is all these things, but such labels make the History something less than it is. Out of a blend of love and wrath - love for Virginia, wrath for the lies perpetrated about it in England - Beverley produced one of the liveliest, wittiest, and best written accounts we have of life in colonial America. He south, so he said, to give readers 'a tolerable entertainment.' Contemporaries on the receiving end of his barbs may have questioned the entertaining quality of the book, but modern readers never have. It remains as readable today as in 1705 when it was published.".…