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The Jamestown adventure : accounts of the Virginia colony, 1605-1614 / edited by Ed Southern.

Southern, Ed, 1972- (Added Author).

Record details

  • ISBN: 0895873028
  • ISBN: 9780895873026
  • Physical Description: xviii, 253 pages ; 19 cm.
  • Publisher: Winston-Salem, N.C. : John F. Blair, [2004]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-253).
Formatted Contents Note:
pt. I. "Come, boys, Virginia longs," 1605-1606. A colonial con job -- Instructions for the first colonists -- pt. II. "This new discovered Virginia, " 1607-1608. The arrival -- "Never were Englishmen in more misery" -- Politics on the edge of the world -- Captain Smith saves the day -- Pocahontas saves Captain Smith -- Captain Smith's voyage to Pamunkey -- pt. III. The starving time, 1609-1610. "Unnecessary inmates" -- Nova Britannia -- A spy in the palace -- "He sold me to him for a town" -- "That sharp prick of hunger" -- pt. IV. Beyond the Palisades, 1610-1613. Tempest and redemption -- Laws divine, moral and martial -- Sir Thomas Dale and the first four towns -- A spy in Virginia -- pt. V. The peace of Pocahontas, 1614. The capture of Pocahontas -- The love letter of John Rolfe -- The last mission to Powhatan.
Subject:
Jamestown (Va.) > History.
Jamestown (Va.) > History > Sources.

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Jacksonville Main Library 975.542 JAM (Text) 36015000661054 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Braswell Memorial Main Library LH 929.375 J055 Jamestown 1605-1614 (Text) 540191002535744 Local History Reference Available -
Forsyth Central 975.542 J (Text) 0112514210189 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Forsyth Central NC975.542 J (Text) 0112512909766 North Carolina Collection Noncirculating -
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Manteo Library 975.5 JAM (Text) 39488300664283 Adult Nonfiction Available -
Morganton Public Library RNC 975.542 Southern (Text) 33557003425071 Local History Reference Available -
Perry Memorial Library R 975. 54251 Jam (Text) 33727002079738 Local History Reference Available -
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