| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xviii, 469 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| Contents |
1: A feast of flowers and blood -- Machiavelli -- The adventurers -- Departure -- 2: Tsenacomoco -- Soundings -- The Spanish ambassador -- Bloody flux -- True relations -- The Virginian sea -- 3: El Dorado -- The mermaid -- Promised land -- The astrologer -- Devil's island -- Deliverance -- 4: A pallid anonymous creature -- Strange fish -- The good husband -- Twelfth night -- 5: Imbangala -- The treasurer -- The 'viperous brood' -- The unmasked face. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 437-458) and index. |
| Summary |
Four centuries ago, a group of men--led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric and a government spy--left London aboard a fleet of three ships to start a new life in America. They arrived in Virginia in the spring of 1607 and set about trying to create a settlement on a tiny island in the James River.--From publisher description. |
| Subject |
Jamestown (Va.) -- History -- 17th century.
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Virginia -- History -- Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.
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Pocahontas, -1617.
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| Note |
Originally published as: Savage kingdom : Virginia and the founding of English America |
| ISBN |
0060090561 |
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9780060090562 |
| Standard No. |
YDXCP 2462181 |
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AU@ 000041602834 |
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