An English garner, Volume 2: ingatherings from our history and literature
by Edward Arber
664 pages•about 13 h 45 min to read•Public domain
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Edward Arber’s second volume gathers historical records and literary writing, for readers interested in encountering the past through its chroniclers and participants rather than through a continuous account. Reporting to Francis Walsingham, Thomas Cavendish describes his homeward route by the Cape of Good Hope and Saint Helena, mixing voyage details with praise of Elizabeth. A New England chronology records a carpenter’s death and the failure of an expensive salt-making scheme. The shift from a sailor’s formal dispatch to the settlement’s everyday setbacks gives the collection its documentary range.
