Savage Kingdom The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

Name: Savage Kingdom The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
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ISBN: 9780060090579

ISBN-10: 006009057X

ISBN-13: 9780060090579

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Authors: Benjamin Woolley

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Four centuries ago, and thirteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men-led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric, and a government spy-arrived in Virginia aboard a fleet of three ships and set about trying to create a settlement on a tiny island in the James River. Despite their shortcomings, and against the odds, they built Jamestown, a ramshackle outpost that laid the foundations of the British Empire and the United States of America. Drawing on new discoveries, neglected sources, and manuscript collections scattered across the world, Savage Kingdom challenges the textbook image of Jamestown-revealing instead a reckless, daring enterprise led by…

Book details

List price: $18.99
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Publication date: 4/8/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 512
Size: 5.31" wide x 8.00" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Benjamin Woolley, writer & broadcaster, covers both the arts & the sciences. His writing includes "Virtual Worlds," a book on virtual reality, "Bride of Science," a biography of Byron's brilliant daughter, & contributions to various British periodicals. He lives in London.



List of Illustrations


Author's Note


Prologue: The Great White Fleet






A Feast of Flowers and Blood



Machiavelli



The Adventurers



Departure






Tsenacomoco



Soundings



The Spanish Ambassador



Bloody Flux



True Relations



The Virginian Sea






El Dorado



The Mermaid



Promised Land



The Astrologer



Devil's Island



Deliverance






A Pallid Anonymous Creature



Strange Fish



The Good Husband



Twelfth Night






Imbangala



The Treasurer



The 'Viperous Brood'



The Unmasked Face


Notes


Bibliography


Index