Author: Thomas HariotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Author: Thomas HariotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
A Brief and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Author: Thomas HarriotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Author: Thomas HarriotPublisher: Manchester [England] : Photolithographed for the Holbein Society, by A. Brothers
ISBN:
Category : Discoveries in geography
Languages : en
Pages : 152
Book Description
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia, Sir Walter Raleigh's Colony of MDLXXXV
Author: Thomas HarriotPublisher: London : Privately printed
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 112
Book Description
The Jamestown Project
Author: Karen Ordahl KuppermanPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674027027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 391
Book Description
Listen to a short interview with Karen Ordahl Kupperman Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Captain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had traveled throughout Europe, been sold as a war captive in Turkey, escaped, and returned to England in time to join the Virginia Company's colonizing project. In Jamestown migrants, merchants, and soldiers who had also sailed to the distant shores of the Ottoman Empire, Africa, and Ireland in search of new beginnings encountered Indians who already possessed broad understanding of Europeans. Experience of foreign environments and cultures had sharpened survival instincts on all sides and aroused challenging questions about human nature and its potential for transformation. It is against this enlarged temporal and geographic background that Jamestown dramatically emerges in Karen Kupperman's breathtaking study. Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, she shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work. Despite the settlers' dependence on the Chesapeake Algonquians and strained relations with their London backers, they forged a tenacious colony that survived where others had failed. Indeed, the structures and practices that evolved through trial and error in Virginia would become the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth. Capturing England's intoxication with a wider world through ballads, plays, and paintings, and the stark reality of Jamestown--for Indians and Europeans alike--through the words of its inhabitants as well as archeological and environmental evidence, Kupperman re-creates these formative years with astonishing detail.
The Records of the Virginia Company of London
Author: Virginia Company of LondonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Virginia
Languages : en
Pages : 668
Book Description
A Briefe and True Report of the New Found Land of Virginia
Author: Thomas HarriotPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 33
Book Description
The History of Virginia
Author: Robert BeverleyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew
Author: Denise HeinzePublisher: Blackstone Publishing
ISBN: 1982598638
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 155
Book Description
Determined to set the historical record straight, and clear her conscience, Temperance Flowerdew—the wife of Virginia’s first two governors—puts quill to paper, recounting the hardships that nearly brought the Jamestown colony to its knees, and the extraordinary sacrifice of her servant girl, Lily. When she steps aboard the Falcon in 1609, Temperance Flowerdew is not only setting sail from England to the distant shores of America, she’s embarking upon a future of opportunity. She doesn’t yet know how she will make her mark, but in this new place she can do or be whatever she wants. Willing as she is to brave this new world, Temperance is utterly ill-equipped to survive the wilderness; all she knows is how to live inside the pages of adventure and philosophy books. Loyally at her side, Lily helps Temperance weather pioneer life. A young woman running from lifelong accusations of witchcraft, Lily finds friendship with Temperance and an acceptance of her psychic gifts. Together, they forge paths within the community: Temperance attempts to advise the makeshift government, while Lily experiences the blossoming of first love. But as the harsh winter approaches, Lily intuitively senses a darkness creep over the colony and the veneer of civilized life threatens to fall away—negotiations with the Indians grow increasingly hostile and provisions become scarce. Lily struggles to keep food on the table by foraging in the woods and being resourceful. Famine could mean the end of days. It’s up to Lily to save them both, but what sacrifice will be enough to survive? A transporting and evocative story, The Brief and True Report of Temperance Flowerdew is a fiercely hopeful novel—a portrait of two intrepid women who choose to live out their dreams of a future more free than the past.
Author: Thomas Hariot