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Mari Hanes

Author of Pocahontas: True Princess

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WBCLIB | Feb 27, 2023 |
A well-written account of Pocahontas from a Christian perspective. It reads aloud well, and would make a good book to read for comparison with Jean Fritz's biography. It is a fictionalized biography, but Hanes does include a historical note at the end of her book helping readers separate fact and fiction. For example, she relates that a Spanish spy that stayed in the same house as Pocahontas for a short time wrote in a report that the English spent a long time teaching her religion, and that the Spanish would have baptized her far sooner. I would have liked Hanes to include an appendix of her sources for the material on Pocahontas's embrace of Christianity, since this is at odds with Fritz's interpretation of the facts.… (more)
 
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mebrock | Oct 29, 2010 |

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