[PDF] Captain John Smith eBook

Author : Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,35 MB
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0807839310

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Captain John Smith was one of the most insightful and colorful writers to visit America in the colonial period. While his first venture was in Virginia, some of his most important work concerned New England and the colonial enterprise as a whole. The publication in 1986 of Philip Barbour's three-volume edition of Smith's works made available the complete Smith opus. In Karen Ordahl Kupperman's new edition her intelligent and imaginative selection and thematic arrangement of Smith's most important writings will make Smith accessible to scholars, students, and general readers alike. Kupperman's introductory material and notes clarify Smith's meaning and the context in which he wrote, while the selections are large enough to allow Captain Smith to speak for himself. As a reasonably priced distillation of the best of John Smith, Kupperman's edition will allow a wide audience to discover what a remarkable thinker and writer he was.

Author : Thomas Hoobler
Publisher : Wiley
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,31 MB
Release : 2007-04-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470128206

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"America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society. He spent the rest of his life trying to return. Though he failed, he pointed the way for others, who were drawn by the dream that opportunity was here for anyone who dared seize it . . . Smith founded more than a colony. He gave birth to the American dream." --from Captain John Smith Captain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in America, and cheated death many times by a mere hairbreadth. Based on rich primary sources, including Smith's own writings and newly discovered material, this enlightening book explores Smith's early days, his forceful leadership at Jamestown that was so critical to its survival, and his efforts upon his return to England to continue settlements in America. This unique volume also reveals the truth behind Smith's relationship with Pocahontas, a tale that history has greatly distorted. Bringing to life heroic deeds and dramatic escapes as well as moments of great suffering and hardship, Captain John Smith serves as a great testament to this important historical figure.

Author : Russell M. Lawson
Publisher : University Press of New England
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 46,1 MB
Release : 2015-04-07
Category : History
ISBN : 1611685168

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By age thirty-four Captain John Smith was already a well-known adventurer and explorer. He had fought as a mercenary in the religious wars of Europe and had won renown for fighting the Turks. He was most famous as the leader of the Virginia Colony at Jamestown, where he had wrangled with the powerful Powhatan and secured the help of Pocahontas. By 1614 he was seeking new adventures. He found them on the 7,000 miles of jagged coastline of what was variously called Norumbega, North Virginia, or Cannada, but which Smith named New England. This land had been previously explored by the English, but while they had made observations and maps and interacted with the native inhabitants, Smith found that "the Coast is . . . even as a Coast unknowne and undiscovered." The maps of the region, such as they were, were inaccurate. On a long, painstaking excursion along the coast in a shallop, accompanied by sailors and the Indian guide Squanto, Smith took careful compass readings and made ocean soundings. His Description of New England, published in 1616, which included a detailed map, became the standard for many years, the one used by such subsequent voyagers as the Pilgrims when they came to Plymouth in 1620. The Sea Mark is the first narrative history of Smith's voyage of exploration, and it recounts Smith's last years when, desperate to return to New England to start a commercial fishery, he languished in Britain, unable to persuade his backers to exploit the bounty he had seen there.

Author : John Smith
Publisher :
Page : 425 pages
File Size : 47,90 MB
Release : 1907
Category : Bermuda Islands
ISBN :

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This is the first of a two-volume work by Captain John Smith, the English adventurer and explorer who helped found Jamestown, the first permanent colony in North America.

Author : Janet Benge
Publisher : YWAM Publishing
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 33,79 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781932096361

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Chronicles the story of Englishman John Smith, who sought adventure in Europe, distinguishing himself in war in the Old World before traveling to the New World in 1607 where he helped established the British settlement of Jamestown.

Author : J. A. Leo Lemay
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 22,53 MB
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0820336289

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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 : Philip L. Barbour
Publisher : Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 29,16 MB
Release : 2011-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780807896136

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Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631, Volume I: Volume I

Author : John Smith
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,41 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781426200557

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This concise biography paints a rich and detailed portrait of one of America's most intriguing founding fathers. Historian Thompson guides readers through annotated selections of Smith's most important and compelling writings.