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The Jamestown Adventure: Accounts of the Virginia Colony, 1605-1614 (Real Voices, Real History) |
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Rating:  Summary: early Jamestown from all perspectives Review: The 20 collected writings relating to the English colony of Jamestown in Virginia, the first English settlement in America, are arranged chronologically from 1605 to 1614. This covers the time just before the arrival of the first colonists on three ships to the marriage of John Rolfe and Pocahontas. The variety of historical documents collected by the editor, a graduate of Wake Forest U., brings out the many sides of the venture of Jamestown. The struggle of the first colonists and mysteries surrounding the fate of some of them are the usual focus of the Jamestown colony. But besides these familiar subjects, Southern includes in this anthology Spanish documents evidencing concern over the colony; English papers voicing the interests and worries of investors; and references by Shakespeare to Jamestown.
Rating:  Summary: Walter Raleigh the "Pirate" Review: The primary sources that are the basis of this little tome are what make it interesting. Mr. Southern's blatant concessions to late 20th century-style political correctness with his own observations are just too boring, i.e, describing Walter Raleigh and Francis Drake as "pirates".
I'm not sure but I think that this is the sort of junk that is passing as "history" in America's colleges these days.
The out-of-print book, "Behold Virginia: the fifth crown: Being the trials, adventures & disasters of the first families of Virginia, the rise of the grandees & the eventual ... the common & uncommon sort in the Revolution" by George F. Willison is a much better book on the subject of Jamestown and all the shenanigans surrounding its founding.
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