Love and hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the heart of a new nation / David A. Price.
2005
F234.J3 P68 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Love and hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the heart of a new nation / David A. Price.
Edition
1st Vintage Books ed.
ISBN
9781400031726 paperback
1400031729 paperback
1400031729 paperback
Imprint
New York : Vintage Books, 2005, c2003.
Language
English
Description
305 p. : maps ; 21 cm
Call Number
F234.J3 P68 2005
Dewey Decimal Classification
975.5/425101
Summary
In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World. The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith's life. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 283-290) and index.
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Table of Contents
Prologue
The crossing
Have great care not to offend
Wingfield
The rescue
Gilded dirt
Powhatan becomes an English prince
Pocahontas saves John Smith again
The starving time
Restoration
The marriage
Pocahontas in London
The first African Americans
March 22, 1622 : skyfall
Smith's vision for America.
The crossing
Have great care not to offend
Wingfield
The rescue
Gilded dirt
Powhatan becomes an English prince
Pocahontas saves John Smith again
The starving time
Restoration
The marriage
Pocahontas in London
The first African Americans
March 22, 1622 : skyfall
Smith's vision for America.