[PDF] Sea Venture eBook

Author : Kieran Doherty
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 29,6 MB
Release : 2013-09-10
Category : History
ISBN : 1466852453

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In one of the most triumphant high sea stories ever told, Kieran Doherty brings to life the true story of the ship that rescued the Jamestown settlement in 1610 and ensured England's place in the New World. When the Sea Venture left England in 1609, it was flagship in a fleet of nine bound for Jamestown with roughly 600 settlers and badly needed supplies aboard. But after four weeks at sea, as the voyage neared its end, a hurricane devastated the fleet, leaving the Sea Venture shipwrecked on the island of Bermuda. It took Sea Venture's passengers nearly a year and half to reach their destination. Awaiting them was not a thriving colony, but instead the remaining fifty colonists—beleaguered, desperate and hungry. But, the question remains, would the English have lost their place in the New World if the ship never arrived? A story of strife and triumph, but above all, endurance, Sea Venture begins and ends in hope and remains one of the greatest "What Ifs?" in history. With a bravado reminiscent of Patrick O'Brien's legendary sea sagas, Doherty braves the elements, delivering a powerful history willed by a people destined to change the New World forever.

Author : Lorri Glover
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 38,76 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781429930963

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A freshly researched account of the dramatic rescue of the Jamestown settlers The English had long dreamed of colonizing America, especially after Sir Francis Drake brought home Spanish treasure and dramatic tales from his raids in the Caribbean. Ambitions of finding gold and planting a New World colony seemed within reach when in 1606 Thomas Smythe extended overseas trade with the launch of the Virginia Company. But from the beginning the American enterprise was a disaster. Within two years warfare with Indians and dissent among the settlers threatened to destroy Smythe's Jamestown just as it had Raleigh's Roanoke a generation earlier. To rescue the doomed colonists and restore order, the company chose a new leader, Thomas Gates. Nine ships left Plymouth in the summer of 1609—the largest fleet England had ever assembled—and sailed into the teeth of a storm so violent that "it beat all light from Heaven." The inspiration for Shakespeare's The Tempest, the hurricane separated the flagship from the fleet, driving it onto reefs off the coast of Bermuda—a lucky shipwreck (all hands survived) which proved the turning point in the colony's fortune.

Author : Gail Langer Karwoski
Publisher : Darby Creek
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 46,86 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781581960150

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In the summer of 1609 a fleet of nine ships left England bound for the Jamestown Colony. Days before landfall, the fleet was hit by a hurricane. Four nights later, the flagship, Sea Venture, ran aground on the reefs on Bermuda's northern coast. Miraculously everyone survived. This is their story.--

Author : Lorri Glover
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 44,59 MB
Release : 2008-08-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9780805086546

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In this2gripping account of shipwreck, mutiny, perseverance, and deliverance, the epic story of the wreck of the "Sea Venture" and its consequences for the survival of Jamestown . . . is told for the first time.--James Horn, author of "A Land As God Made It."

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Page : 136 pages
File Size : 17,72 MB
Release : 1959-03-23
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LIFE Magazine is the treasured photographic magazine that chronicled the 20th Century. It now lives on at LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the internet. Users can browse, search and view photos of today’s people and events. They have free access to share, print and post images for personal use.

Author : Christine Boardman Moen
Publisher : Lorenz Educational Press
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2007-09-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1573105228

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"Puzzle Paragraphs will show you how to: construct and deconstruct the most common nonfiction text types, seamlessly integrate these activities into readers' and writers workshops, and use the sample texts and BLMs provided in this comprehensive resource book."--back cover.

Author : John Lehman
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 38,6 MB
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0393254267

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“Engrossing and illuminating.” —Arthur Herman, Wall Street Journal When Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, the United States and NATO were losing the Cold War. The USSR had superiority in conventional weapons and manpower in Europe, and it had embarked on a massive program to gain naval preeminence. But Reagan already had a plan to end the Cold War without armed conflict. In this landmark narrative, former navy secretary John Lehman reveals the untold story of the naval operations that played a major role in winning the Cold War.

Author : Peter Linebaugh
Publisher : Verso
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 37,54 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Capitalism
ISBN : 9781859847985

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For most readers the tale told here will be completely new. For those already acquainted with the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, the image of that age which they have been so carefully taught and cultivated will be profoundly challenged.