Big Chief Elizabeth - 1st UK edition

by Giles Milton - signed

A sprawling tale of how the aristocrats and privateers of Elizabethan England reached and colonized the "wild and barbarous shores" of the New World. Everything from John Cabot's voyage to America in 1497, to the ultimately successful foundation of the English colony at Jamestown by 1611. The main focus of the book, though regards Sir Walter Raleigh's attempts to establish an English settlement in Roanoke, in present-day North Carolina.

Book is has very dark purple boards, with gold-stamped lettering on the spine; new.  Dust jacket is new/fine also.