The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown
The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlersThe English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier.To resc…
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Weitere Autoren: Smith, Daniel Blake
- ISBN: 978-1-4299-3096-3
- EAN: 9781429930963
- Produktnummer: 22472730
- Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2008
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'541 KB
- Auflage: First Edition
- Abbildungen: Includes eighteen pages of black-and-white photographs and five maps
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