John O Jamestown

Author : David A. Price
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 030742670X
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Love and Hate in Jamestown written by David A. Price and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 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.

Author : R. E. Pritchard
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
ISBN 13 : 1526773635
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain John Smith, Adventurer written by R. E. Pritchard and published by Pen and Sword History. This book was released on 2020-07-30 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The swashbuckling life of the Elizabethan explorer and colonial governor is vividly recounted in this historical biography. Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an extraordinary life filled with danger and adventure. As a soldier, he fought the Turks in Eastern Europe, where he beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked, and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. All this before he was thirty years old. Smith was one of the founders of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. He faced considerable danger from the Native Americans as well as from competing factions within the settlement itself. In the face of all this, Smith’s leadership saved the settlement from failure.

Author : Thomas Hoobler
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 0470314982
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain John Smith written by Thomas Hoobler and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society. He spent the rest of his life trying to return. Though he failed, he pointed the way for others, who were drawn by the dream that opportunity was here for anyone who dared seize it . . . Smith founded more than a colony. He gave birth to the American dream." --from Captain John Smith Captain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in America, and cheated death many times by a mere hairbreadth. Based on rich primary sources, including Smith's own writings and newly discovered material, this enlightening book explores Smith's early days, his forceful leadership at Jamestown that was so critical to its survival, and his efforts upon his return to England to continue settlements in America. This unique volume also reveals the truth behind Smith's relationship with Pocahontas, a tale that history has greatly distorted. Bringing to life heroic deeds and dramatic escapes as well as moments of great suffering and hardship, Captain John Smith serves as a great testament to this important historical figure.

Author : Vaughan Kester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.34/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John O' Jamestown written by Vaughan Kester and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vaughan Kester
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John o' Jamestown written by Vaughan Kester and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 9781426200557
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Journals of Captain John Smith written by John Smith and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This concise biography paints a rich and detailed portrait of one of America's most intriguing founding fathers. Historian Thompson guides readers through annotated selections of Smith's most important and compelling writings.

Author : Candice Ransom
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 0822565188
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sam Collier and the Founding of Jamestown written by Candice Ransom and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 1607, twelve-year-old Sam Collier and a group of Englishmen landed in North America. Arriving as an assistant to the solider John Smith, Sam was excited to discover what adventures lay before him in the new land soon to be known as Virginia. But the months ahead would soon prove to be a harsh test. Facing sickness and starvation and sudden attack, Sam had to use all his wits if he were to survive. Could Sam and his fellow settlers trust Virginia’s Indians to help them? Could they learn to survive in this strange new land?

Author : Lauran Paine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Captain John Smith and the Jamestown Story written by Lauran Paine and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The short, burly Lincolnshireman, Captain John Smith, first among the Englishmen to establish a permanent settlement in the New World, was almost as controversial in death as he had been in life. In American history books he is portrayed as dauntless, energetic and staunch. Even in English history little is said about his life before he established and, for a time, ruled Jamestown settlement in what later became Virginia. But John Smith was already an almost legendary figure before he sailed for the New World. For centuries historians have branded Captain Smith a liar. But John Smith simply had the misfortune to live a life so colourful that ordinary people could not believe anyone capable of his achievements. Quite often he very narrowly managed to survive. Recently his flamboyant tales have been proven not just highly probable but true. John Smith lived a lifelong adventure, perhaps the 'least' memorable of his exploits being the questionable event of his life being saved by the Indian girl Pocahontas. More than three hundred years after his passing, the dispassionate judgements of contemporary historians show John Smith to have been very much a man of his time.

Author : John Smith
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capt. John Smith written by John Smith and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Vaughan Kester
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781334237713
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John O' Jamestown (Classic Reprint) written by Vaughan Kester and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-11-10 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from John O' Jamestown What is the distance to the nearest house? Asked Captain Maxwell, ignoring my father's question. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.