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Love and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation by David Price (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100375415416
ISBN-139780375415418
eBay Product ID (ePID)2454817
Product Key Features
Book TitleLove and Hate in Jamestown : John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Heart of a New Nation
Number of Pages320 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicUnited States / Colonial Period (1600-1775), Historical
IllustratorYes
GenreBiography & Autobiography, History
AuthorDavid Price
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight21.7 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.2 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2002-043437
Reviews"A fine book...one that personifies the virtues I esteem...clarity, intelligence, grace, novelty, and brevity." --David L. Beck, San JoseMecury News Solid and engaging... Price focuses on the human story of Jamestown, nearly mythic in its resonances." --Caleb Crain,New York Times Book Review "Splendidly realized...firmly grounded in original sources...and in later scholarship, it has the immediacy of contemporary journalism...by teasing out the themes of love and hate, Price has given the Jamestown story a contemporary freshness." --Michael Kenney,Boston Globe "Combining a gift for storytelling with meticulous scholarship...Price sorts reality from legend in his splendid new book....it is superbly done." -- Roger Bishop,BookPage "Sparkling....Price relates the entire riveting story of the founding of Virginia....built unobtrusively on the best scholarship....a splendid work of serious narrative history." --Publishers Weekly "A graceful narrative history of the troubled Jamestown colony....A first-rate work of popular history, and sure to become a standard." --Kirkus "Price has digested the most recent scholarship on early Virginia, then filtered it through his instincts as a storyteller to create the most historically correct and stylistically elegant rendering of John Smith and Pocahontas that I have ever read." Joseph J. Ellis, author ofFounding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation "In a rousing tale of the early years of Jamestown, David A. Price rescues Pocahontas and the Virginia settlement from Hollywood cartoons as deftly as the young Indian princess may have saved Captain John Smith from execution by her father, the great Powhatan." Jon Kukla, author ofA Wilderness So Immense "A juicy feast of compelling storytelling....a meticulosuly researched volume ...that scans in the imagination like a motion picture.Love and Hate in Jamestowndeserves an honored spot in any history buffs library." --Jerrold J. Ladd, Sr., Fort WorthStar-Telegram "A fine book...one that personifies the virtues I esteem...clarity, intelligence, grace, novelty, and brevity." --David L. Beck, San JoseMecury News
Dewey Edition21
Dewey Decimal975.5/425101
SynopsisA gripping narrative of one of the great survival stories of American history: the opening of the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Drawing on period letters and chronicles, and on the papers of the Virginia Companywhich financed the settlement of JamestownDavid Price tells a tale of cowardice and courage, stupidity and brilliance, tragedy and costly triumph. He takes us into the day-to-day existence of the English men and women whose charge was to find gold and a route to the Orient, and who found, instead, hardship and wretched misery. Death, in fact, became the settlers' most faithful companion, and their infighting was ceaseless. Price offers a rare balanced view of the relationship between the settlers and the natives. He unravels the crucial role of Pocahontas, a young woman whose reality has been obscured by centuries of legend and misinformation (and, more recently, animation). He paints indelible portraits of Chief Powhatan, the aged monarch who came close to ending the colony's existence, and Captain John Smith, the former mercenary and slave, whose disdain for class distinctions infuriated many around himeven as his resourcefulness made him essential to the colony's success. Love and Hate in Jamestownis a superb work of popular history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation., The National Trust cares for the finest collection of historic buildings, gardens, parks, landscape and coastline in the world. Its famous and well-respected series of guidebooks provides the essential companion to your visit and a lasting souvenir of the experience. And now you can buy the guide before your visit. Authoritative texts and superb illustrations illuminate the history of the place and tell the stories of the people who have lived and worked there. Every guidebook sold goes to help the work of the National Trust. If you want to learn more about the property, go to www.nationaltrust.org.uk.
LC Classification NumberF234.J3P68 2003
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Marvelous look a Jamestowne
One of the best books I've encountered of the Jamestowne settlement and its compelling characters; well written and easy to understand.Verified purchase: YesCondition: Pre-owned
