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Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize Bernard Bailyn gives us a compelling, fresh account of the first great transit of people from Britain, Europe, and Africa to British North America, their involvements with each other, and their struggles with the indigenous peoples of the eastern seaboard. The immigrants were a mixed multitude. They came from England, the Netherlands, the German and Italian states, France, Africa, Sweden, and Finland, and they moved to the western hemisphere for different show more reasons, from different social backgrounds and cultures. They represented a spectrum of religious attachments. In the early years, their stories are not mainly of triumph but of confusion, failure, violence, and the loss of civility as they sought to normalize situations and recapture lost worlds. It was a thoroughly brutal encounter--not only between the Europeans and native peoples and between Europeans and Africans, but among Europeans themselves, as they sought to control and prosper in the new configurations of life that were emerging around them. show lessTags
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I call this series the clipper ship of gamebooks, because the clipper ship was the perfection of mercantile sailing technology -- which arrived just as steamships made sailing ships obsolete. The Fabled lands books similarly arrived as the market for gamebooks collapsed in the mid 1990s. Hopefully the 2010 reprint will give the series a well-deserved second chance at commercial success. The Fabled Lands books allow free wandering within and between the books. Like the Elder Scrolls computer games they are the closest thing in gamebooks to a truly open roleplaying experience. It's hard to say if I've actually 'finished' the books in such a context, but I can review the bits I've seen.
The War Torn Kingdom is the first book in the series show more and supposedly the easiest. Certainly I found many missions to do there, although some areas are still quite dangerous. The writing and illustrations (by Russ Nicholson) are very good. show less
The War Torn Kingdom is the first book in the series show more and supposedly the easiest. Certainly I found many missions to do there, although some areas are still quite dangerous. The writing and illustrations (by Russ Nicholson) are very good. show less
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- Canonical title
- The War-Torn Kingdom
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- English, German
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