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Author : Marie Lawson
Release : 1950
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Book Synopsis Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by : Marie Lawson
Download or read book Pocahontas and Captain John Smith written by Marie Lawson. This book was released on 1950. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : J. A. Leo Lemay
Release : 2010-06-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? by : J. A. Leo Lemay
Download or read book Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? written by J. A. Leo Lemay. This book was released on 2010-06-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : R. E. Pritchard
Release : 2020-07-30
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Synopsis Captain John Smith, Adventurer by : R. E. Pritchard
Download or read book Captain John Smith, Adventurer written by R. E. Pritchard. This book was released on 2020-07-30. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The swashbuckling life of the Elizabethan explorer and colonial governor is vividly recounted in this historical biography. Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an extraordinary life filled with danger and adventure. As a soldier, he fought the Turks in Eastern Europe, where he beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked, and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. All this before he was thirty years old. Smith was one of the founders of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. He faced considerable danger from the Native Americans as well as from competing factions within the settlement itself. In the face of all this, Smith’s leadership saved the settlement from failure.
Author : Peter Firstbrook
Release : 2015-09-15
Genre : Biography & Autobiography
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Book Rating : 101/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis A Man Most Driven by : Peter Firstbrook
Download or read book A Man Most Driven written by Peter Firstbrook. This book was released on 2015-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. And all this happened before he was thirty years old. This is Captain John Smith’s life. Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how in 1607 she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest – and a far more ambitious self-promoter, too. With A Man Most Driven, Firstbrook delivers a riveting, enlightening dissection of this myth-making man, England’s arrival on the world stage, and the creation of America.
Author : Elmer Boyd Smith
Release : 1906
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Book Synopsis The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by : Elmer Boyd Smith
Download or read book The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith written by Elmer Boyd Smith. This book was released on 1906. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fictional account of John Smith and Pocahontas.
