Captain John Smith : a select edition of his writings / edited by Karen Ordahl Kupperman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Smith, John, 1580-1631.

Contributor:

Kupperman, Karen Ordahl, 1939-

Institute of Early American History and Culture (Williamsburg, Va.)

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. 1988

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Discoveries in geography.

History.

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

Virginia.

New England--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Collected works.

New England.

America--Discovery and exploration--English--Collected works.

America.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

vi, 290 pages, 5 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill ; London : Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Viriginia, by the University of North Carolina Press, [1988]

Summary:

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.

Notes:

"The published works of Capt. John Smith": pages [25]-27.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [29]-31) and index.

ISBN:

0807817783

0807842087

OCLC:

16581630