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Author |
: John Smith |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 550 |
Release |
: 1895 |
ISBN-10 |
: STANFORD:36105119317092 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis Capt. John Smith by : John Smith
Author |
: John Smith |
Publisher |
: National Geographic Books |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2007 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1426200552 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781426200557 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (52 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Journals of Captain John Smith by : John Smith
This concise biography paints a rich and detailed portrait of one of America's most intriguing founding fathers. Historian Thompson guides readers through annotated selections of Smith's most important and compelling writings.
Author |
: Russell M. Lawson |
Publisher |
: University Press of New England |
Total Pages |
: 249 |
Release |
: 2015-04-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781611685169 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1611685168 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Sea Mark by : Russell M. Lawson
By age thirty-four Captain John Smith was already a well-known adventurer and explorer. He had fought as a mercenary in the religious wars of Europe and had won renown for fighting the Turks. He was most famous as the leader of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, where he had wrangled with the powerful Powhatan and secured the help of Pocahontas. By 1614 he was seeking new adventures. He found them on the 7,000 miles of jagged coastline of what was variously called Norumbega, North Virginia, or Cannada, but which Smith named New England. This land had been previously explored by the English, but while they had made observations and maps and interacted with the native inhabitants, Smith found that "the Coast is . . . even as a Coast unknowne and undiscovered." The maps of the region, such as they were, were inaccurate. On a long, painstaking excursion along the coast in a shallop, accompanied by sailors and the Indian guide Squanto, Smith took careful compass readings and made ocean soundings. His Description of New England, published in 1616, which included a detailed map, became the standard for many years, the one used by such subsequent voyagers as the Pilgrims when they came to Plymouth in 1620. The Sea Mark is the first narrative history of Smith's voyage of exploration, and it recounts Smith's last years when, desperate to return to New England to start a commercial fishery, he languished in Britain, unable to persuade his backers to exploit the bounty he had seen there.
Author |
: John Smith |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 1966 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0598359869 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780598359865 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Generall Historie of Virginia, New-England, and the Summer Isles by : John Smith
Author |
: Karen Ordahl Kupperman |
Publisher |
: UNC Press Books |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2012-12-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780807839317 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0807839310 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (17 Downloads) |
Synopsis Captain John Smith by : Karen Ordahl Kupperman
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.
Author |
: Marie Lawson |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 196 |
Release |
: 1950 |
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: |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by : Marie Lawson
Author |
: Lambert Lilly |
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: |
Total Pages |
: 230 |
Release |
: 1842 |
ISBN-10 |
: HARVARD:32044035987254 |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (54 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Adventures of Captain John Smith by : Lambert Lilly
Author |
: John Bernhard Smith |
Publisher |
: Awnsham and John Churchill |
Total Pages |
: 58 |
Release |
: 1704 |
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: |
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: |
Rating |
: 4/5 ( Downloads) |
Synopsis The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629 by : John Bernhard Smith
Captain John Smith dmiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. He was the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England. His books and maps were important in encouraging and supporting English colonization of the New World. He gave the name New England to the region and noted: "Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land... If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industries quickly grow rich." When Jamestown was England's first permanent settlement in the New World, Smith trained the settlers to farm and work, thus saving the colony from early devastation. He publicly stated "He that will not work, shall not eat", quoting from the Bible, 2nd Thessalonians 3:10. Harsh weather, lack of water, living in a swampy wilderness and attacks from the Powhatan Indians almost destroyed the colony. The Jamestown settlement survived and so did Smith, but he had to return to England after being injured by an accidental explosion of gunpowder in a boat.
Author |
: John Smith |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 524 |
Release |
: 1986 |
ISBN-10 |
: 080781525X |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780807815250 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (5X Downloads) |
Synopsis The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, (1580-1631) by : John Smith
Author |
: J. A. Leo Lemay |
Publisher |
: University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages |
: 170 |
Release |
: 2010-06-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780820336282 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0820336289 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? by : J. A. Leo Lemay
By the mid-nineteenth century, Captain John Smith, the early colonial explorer and settler, was a well-known figure in American history. The story of how, in 1607, the Powhatan princess Pocahontas saved him from execution by her tribe appeared in all the standard American histories. Numerous plays, novels, and poems were devoted to the episode. Starting in the 1860s, however, scholars began to question Smith's published accounts of the Pocahontas incident, and a controversy ensued, with Henry Adams becoming Smith's most famous detractor. Today many scholars continue to regard Smith as a vainglorious braggart who lied about his rescue. J. A. Leo Lemay offers the first full analysis of the historiography of this debate. Examining all of the primary and secondary evidence, he persuasively demonstrates that the incident did in fact occur. A tightly argued study, Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? not only refutes the outright skeptics; it effectively reverses the prevailing judgment that the truth will never be known.