Author: John Smith
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Languages : en
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Description: This book documents the history of Virginia and the colonies which were developed between 1584 and 1627. It includes descriptions of commodities including Virginia's tobacco industry.
Generall Historie of Virginia
Author: John Smith
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Description: This book documents the history of Virginia and the colonies which were developed between 1584 and 1627. It includes descriptions of commodities including Virginia's tobacco industry.
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Description: This book documents the history of Virginia and the colonies which were developed between 1584 and 1627. It includes descriptions of commodities including Virginia's tobacco industry.
Capt. John Smith
Author: John Smith
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Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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Category : Bermuda Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 550
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The History of the Worthies of England
Author: Thomas Fuller
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 606
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A True Relation of Virginia
Author: John Smith
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 170
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The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629
Author: John Bernhard Smith
Publisher: Awnsham and John Churchill
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
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Captain John Smith dmiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. He was the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England. His books and maps were important in encouraging and supporting English colonization of the New World. He gave the name New England to the region and noted: "Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land... If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industries quickly grow rich." When Jamestown was England's first permanent settlement in the New World, Smith trained the settlers to farm and work, thus saving the colony from early devastation. He publicly stated "He that will not work, shall not eat", quoting from the Bible, 2nd Thessalonians 3:10. Harsh weather, lack of water, living in a swampy wilderness and attacks from the Powhatan Indians almost destroyed the colony. The Jamestown settlement survived and so did Smith, but he had to return to England after being injured by an accidental explosion of gunpowder in a boat.
Publisher: Awnsham and John Churchill
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Category : Voyages and travels
Languages : en
Pages : 58
Book Description
Captain John Smith dmiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. He was the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England. His books and maps were important in encouraging and supporting English colonization of the New World. He gave the name New England to the region and noted: "Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land... If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industries quickly grow rich." When Jamestown was England's first permanent settlement in the New World, Smith trained the settlers to farm and work, thus saving the colony from early devastation. He publicly stated "He that will not work, shall not eat", quoting from the Bible, 2nd Thessalonians 3:10. Harsh weather, lack of water, living in a swampy wilderness and attacks from the Powhatan Indians almost destroyed the colony. The Jamestown settlement survived and so did Smith, but he had to return to England after being injured by an accidental explosion of gunpowder in a boat.
The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles
Author: John Smith
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 276
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Captain John Smith's Circular Or Prospectus of His Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England
Author: John Smith
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma
Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429930772
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 1429930772
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 245
Book Description
Camilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
History of Southwest Virginia, 1746-1786, Washington County, 1777-1870
Author: Lewis Preston Summers
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 932
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A New Voyage to Carolina
Author: John Lawson
Publisher: IndyPublish.com
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Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Publisher: IndyPublish.com
ISBN:
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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