The journals of Captain John Smith : a Jamestown biography / edited by John M. Thompson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

Contributor:

Thompson, John M. (John Milliken), 1959-

Series:

National Geographic adventure classics

Standardized Title:

Journals. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Smith, John, 1580-1631--Diaries.

Smith, John.

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

Colonists--Virginia--Diaries.

Colonists.

Explorers--America--Diaries.

Explorers.

America.

Great Britain.

Virginia.

Explorers--Great Britain--Diaries.

Jamestown (Va.)--History--17th century.

Jamestown (Va.).

Jamestown (Va.)--Biography.

Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.

History.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.)--Discovery and exploration.

Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.).

Genre:

Diaries.

Autobiographies.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 229 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, D.C. : National Geographic Society, [2007]

Summary:

In 1607 a group of some 100 colonists began building the first English colony in America on the banks of Virginia's James River. After a series of disasters that nearly wiped the colony out, the leader who emerged was a redoubtable commoner named John Smith. His writings on the Jamestown adventure form a riveting tale of hardship and triumph in the wilderness. Focusing on Smith's two and a half years in Jamestown, this edition of his work details the colony's founding and its struggle to survive. During these years, Smith matched wits and arms with the mighty Indian ruler Powhatan, became entangled with Powhatan's daughter Pocahontas, put down mutinies, explored the entire Chesapeake and its main rivers, and kept the nascent colony from going under.

To celebrate the 400th anniversary of Jamestown, this annotated and illustrated book presents a fresh telling of Smith's Virginia venture in his own words. Updated with modern spelling and punctuation, the writings of America's first adventurer-explorer are as exciting today as they were in his own time, when they gave heart to England's effort to keep its foothold in the New World.

Contents:

Captain John Smith's Map of 1612 viii

Principal Figures xxii

1 Into the Land of Pocahontas 1

2 Smith Becomes a Werowance 29

3 First Chesapeake Voyage 43

4 Second Chesapeake Voyage 61

5 President John Smith 89

6 Powhatan the Subtle Savage 109

7 The Coup against Smith 135

8 Jamestown without Smith 165

9 Peace and War 179.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

9781426200557

1426200552

OCLC:

76167091

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