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The shipwreck that saved Jamestown : the Sea Venture castaways and the fate of America / Lorri Glover and Daniel Blake Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Glover, Lorri, 1967-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Virginia Company of London.
- Seafaring life.
- History.
- Shipwrecks.
- Jamestown (Va.)--History--17th century.
- Jamestown (Va.).
- Bermuda Islands--History--17th century.
- Bermuda Islands.
- Sea Venture (Ship).
- Shipwrecks--Bermuda Islands--History--17th century.
- Virginia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
- Virginia.
- Great Britain--Colonies--America--History--17th century.
- Great Britain.
- Colonies.
- America.
- Virginia Company of London--History.
- Seafaring life--History--17th century.
- Physical Description:
- 322 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2008.
- Summary:
- Floundering from two years of warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers, the Virginia Company was about to collapse. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609--the largest fleet England had ever assembled--and sailed into the teeth of a storm ... The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda--a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony's fortune.--From publisher description.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 London Dreams 9
- Chapter 2 "A Grand Enterprise" 37
- Chapter 3 Voyage to Hell 76
- Chapter 4 Distressing News 97
- Chapter 5 The "Isle of Devils" 124
- Chapter 6 Trouble in Paradise 149
- Chapter 7 Jamestown Starving 171
- Chapter 8 Redemption in Virginia 186
- Chapter 9 God Is English 212
- Chapter 10 "O Brave New World" 245.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-310) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780805086546
- 0805086544
- OCLC:
- 177818614
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
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