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Work InformationThe Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne : An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey (Virginia Bookshelf) by Ivor Noël Hume
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This book examines the two earliest English outposts in Virginia--Roanoke and James Towne--and pieces together revelatory information extrapolated from the shards and postholes of excavations at these sites with contemporary accounts found in journals, letters, and official records of the period. The author illuminates narratives that have a mythic status in our early history : the exploits of Sir Walter Raleigh, Captain John Smith, and Powhatan; the life and death of Pocahontas; and the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. He recounts an excavation at Roanoke where he and his colleagues found the work site of a metallurgist named Joachim Gans, whose findings about the mineral wealth of Virginia helped to convince London merchants that America was a worthy risk. This is an account of high and low adventure, of noble efforts and base impulses, and of the inevitably tragic interactions between Indians and Europeans, marked by greed, treachery, and commonplace savagery on both sides. No library descriptions found. |
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I was amazed at the amount of suffering and violence that the English meted unto themselves and to the native Americans that lived in the region.
The debunking of some of the myths surrounding Capt John Smith, Powhatan and Pocahontas are every bit as riveting as the mythology that has survived up to the present.
A great survey of the early English attempts to establish themselves in the New World. ( )