Pretty please, can historians always write like this? I particularly admired how seriously Price took what the people at the time thought and felt and wrote down - he is no chronist. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith’s life. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. A New York Times Notable Book and a San Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003 In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific.
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