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The wild shores : America's beginnings / by Tee Loftin Snell ; photos. by Walter Meayers Edwards, paintings by Louis S. Glanzman ; foreword by David Mark Griffiths ; prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society.

Record details

  • ISBN: 0870441485
  • ISBN: 9780870441486
  • Physical Description: 203 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
  • Publisher: Washington : National Geographic Society, [1974]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes index.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Bibliography: page 202.
Formatted Contents Note:
The newfound land -- Island triumphs, mainland defeats, 1492-1561 -- Bloody Florida, lost Roanoke, 1562-1590 -- Settlers for a season, 1520-1608 -- Holding on in Virginia and Canada, 1607-1620 -- Pious Plymouth, rowdy Manhattan, 1620-1630 -- Lords brethren and Lords Calvert, 1625-1647 -- Struggle over land, rent and rulers, 1638-1699 -- Outposts in the south, 1650-1775 -- Missions and fur posts on the Pacific, 1740-1841.
Subject:
America > Discovery and exploration.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
United States > History > 1783-1865.

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