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John May - Founding of English America, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

Founding of English America

An Introduction to the Lost Colony and Jamestown

Av John May

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In 1577, John Dee, a scientist who served as an advisor to Queen Elizabeth I, proposed to her the creation of colonies in the New World. Neither Elizabeth nor Walter Raleigh imagined the task would be so difficult or take more than 30 years. The effort started with an exploration of the coast of today's North Carolina and the settlement of a colony on Roanoke Island in 1585. This ended tragically and became known as The Lost Colony, its fate a mystery to this day. James I resumed the effort with the founding of Jamestown in 1607 on an island in the James River in today's Virginia.This book relates the histories of the Roanoke and Jamestown colonies to enable a full understanding of the founding of English America. Important events in America's beginnings, including the wreck of the Sea Venture (which inspired William Shakespeare's The Tempest), the Algonquin chief Powhatan's plans to make the newcomers useful to him, and the relationship between Pocahontas and English Captain John Smith are highlighted.
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2024-06-25
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 6 mm
  • Vikt: 443 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 120
  • Förlag: McFarland & Co Inc
  • ISBN: 9781476695242
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John May is an author and former business executive who resides in Pittsboro, North Carolina. His first work, a historical novel, was a finalist for the Thomas Wolfe Prize.

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“With the scope of a Homeric epic, May’s narrative follows Europe’s seagoing nations as their mariners discover various dependable winds, as navigation and shipbuilding evolve, and as England tries to best its rivals by colonizing the eastern North American coast between 1580 and 1610. His focus narrows on the first two attempts: Roanoke Island, the one that disappeared, and Jamestown, the one that nearly starved to death before becoming the epicenter of Virginia’s booming tobacco economy—and its market in enslaved Africans. In this extensively researched work, May’s eye is also often on Powhatan, father of Pocahontas and great chief, as he dealt with Captain John Smith and his English cohort. Fascinating: full of great characters, surprises, and horrors, and gripping all the way!”—Bland Simpson, author of North Carolina, Land of Water, Land of Sky and Clover Garden

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