Before the Pilgrims, a 'Savage' Jamestown
The 400th anniversary of Jamestown's founding has inspired a fresh look at America's founding rascals.
from the May 8, 2007 edition
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Other new books about Jamestown
The Jamestown Project by Karen Ordahl Kupperman
The Jamestown settlement may have had a rocky start but historian Kupperman interprets this as the mess in a creative process. The settlers gradually figured out how to make colonization work, and agricultural experiments brought the realization that hard work enabled one to enjoy the fruits of one's labor.
The River Where America Began by Bob Deans
This is the history, as a river ran through it, of life along its banks from Paleolithic hunter-gatherers up to Abraham Lincoln. Author Deans sees the river James as the headwaters of a nation. The founding of Jamestown is retold in vivid detail.
Jamestown: The Buried Truth by William M. Kelso
Kelso, the head archaeologist of the Jamestown Rediscovery Project, describes the careful project of unearthing America's oldest settlement and the joy of finding such things as garbage dumps, which tell the tale of a colony struggling to survive.
Love and Hate in Jamestown by David A. Price
Love stories never grow old. Price uses the tale of John Smith and Pocahontas as the pivot for the retelling of a historical culture clash as European settlers, native Americans, and African slaves met, mingled, and destroyed one another.
Captain John Smith: Writings with Other Narratives of Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America by John Smith
He was there, he should know what happened. This volume presents seven works by Capt. John Smith, along with 16 narratives by others.
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