Author: John Smith
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
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This is an important?collection of John Smith's original published works. This edition contains a biographical sketch of Smith that helps place the works within a broader context. Smith's numerous publications throughout the early 17th century provide the basis for historical understanding of the New World, and Jamestown in particular.?
Author: Edward Arber
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Languages : en
Pages :
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Author: John Smith
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 568
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Author: John Smith
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Category : New England
Languages : en
Pages : 626
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Author: John Smith
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ISBN: 9781403502018
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 984
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Author: John Smith
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Languages : en
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Author: Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 0807839310
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305
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Captain John Smith was one of the most insightful and colorful writers to visit America in the colonial period. While his first venture was in Virginia, some of his most important work concerned New England and the colonial enterprise as a whole. The publication in 1986 of Philip Barbour's three-volume edition of Smith's works made available the complete Smith opus. In Karen Ordahl Kupperman's new edition her intelligent and imaginative selection and thematic arrangement of Smith's most important writings will make Smith accessible to scholars, students, and general readers alike. Kupperman's introductory material and notes clarify Smith's meaning and the context in which he wrote, while the selections are large enough to allow Captain Smith to speak for himself. As a reasonably priced distillation of the best of John Smith, Kupperman's edition will allow a wide audience to discover what a remarkable thinker and writer he was.
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.
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.
Author: John Smith
Publisher: Burt Franklin
ISBN: 9780833700803
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Languages : en
Pages : 601
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