love and hate in jamestown by david a price

I had long wondered if the reason I liked it was because it was one of the first, and a second reading would put it in better perspective. It was one of the first books I read on the subject of Jamestown (after the two Tilton books), and I really enjoyed it on my first reading (and second, too).

Vintage Books, a division of Random House, Inc.

Urn:oclc:869553327 Scandate 20110329065916 Scanner & Hate in Jamestown John Smith, Pocahontas and the Start of a New Nation

OL5355393W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 89.88 Pages 338 Ppi 514 Related-external-id urn:isbn:1400031729 He paints indelible portraits of Chief Powhatan, the aged monarch who came close to ending the colony's existence, and Captain John Smith, the former mercenary and slave, whose disdain for class distinctions infuriated many around him - even as his resourcefulness made him essential to the colony's success.'-BOOK JACKETĪccess-restricted-item true Addeddate 19:11:17 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA135201 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Curatenote shipped Donor He unravels the crucial role of Pocahontas, a young woman whose reality has been obscured by centuries of legend and misinformation (and, more recently, animation). Death, in fact, became the settlers' most faithful companion, and their infighting was ceaseless.' 'Price offers a rare balanced view of the relationship between the settlers and the native. He takes us into the day-to-day existence of the British men and women whose charge was to find gold and route to the Orient, and who instead found hardship and wretched misery. Price tells a tale of cowardice and courage, stupidity and brilliance, tragedy and costly triumph. 'Drawing on period letters and chroniclers, and on the papers of the Virginia Company - which financed the settlement of Jamestown - David A. 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 - Ma: skyfall - Smith's vision for America

Love and hate in jamestown by david a price