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Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
John Smith, is most often associated with being rescued by Pocahontas. He was a swashbuckling Englishman who won battles against impossible odds, a daring world explorer, a president, a mapmaker, a peacekeeper and something else...he was probably the greatest escape artist on the planet! He escaped from dangers over and over again, not only from indians but from angry mobs, slave drivers, French pirates, and even the deep blue sea.
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking, pious Pilgrims thrived in the wilds of New England, where they built their fabled city on a hill. Legend goes that the colony in Jamestown was a false start, offering...
Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
In striking contrast to conventional accounts, Pocahontas is a bold and daring biography that attempts to tell the extraordinary story of the beloved Indian maiden from the Native American perspective. Drawing from sources often overlooked by Western historians, Dr. Paula Gunn Allen offers remarkable new insights into the adventurous life and sacred role of this foremost American heroine. We have all heard about the love-struck Pocahontas saving the...
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Floundering from two years of warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers, the Virginia Company was about to collapse. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609--the largest fleet England had ever assembled--and sailed into the teeth of a storm.... The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the...
Author
Publisher
Greyfox Press
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Few women and children sailed to Jamestown in 1609. But to Joan, prosperous Virginia sounded promising, even when she was forced to leave a daughter behind. Even that Joan could bear. But the hurricane, the Starving Time, the Indian Wars-- Jamestown was nothing as she imagined ...
Author
Series
Virginia mysteries volume 6
Publisher
MyBoys3 Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years ago, colonists voyaged across the Atlantic Ocean to discover a new world. Today, an amazing archaeological dig at Historic Jamestown promises to uncover new secrets from those earliest English settlers. Sam, Derek and Caitlin can't believe their luck when they are invited by Professor Evanshade to help with the archaeological digs for a week at Jamestown's Field School. Maybe they'll uncover something spectacular tracing all the...
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