Capt John Smith

Author : Karen Ordahl Kupperman
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780807839317

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Captain John Smith by Karen Ordahl Kupperman Pdf

Captain John Smith was one of the most insightful and colorful writers to visit America in the colonial period. While his first venture was in Virginia, some of his most important work concerned New England and the colonial enterprise as a whole. The publication in 1986 of Philip Barbour's three-volume edition of Smith's works made available the complete Smith opus. In Karen Ordahl Kupperman's new edition her intelligent and imaginative selection and thematic arrangement of Smith's most important writings will make Smith accessible to scholars, students, and general readers alike. Kupperman's introductory material and notes clarify Smith's meaning and the context in which he wrote, while the selections are large enough to allow Captain Smith to speak for himself. As a reasonably priced distillation of the best of John Smith, Kupperman's edition will allow a wide audience to discover what a remarkable thinker and writer he was.

Author : George Canning Hill
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1858
Category : Electronic
ISBN : MINN:31951001781845L

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Capt. John Smith by George Canning Hill Pdf

Author : Thomas Hoobler,Dorothy Hoobler
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2008-04-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9780470314982

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Captain John Smith by Thomas Hoobler,Dorothy Hoobler Pdf

"America was the place Smith had dreamed of his whole life.There, his character, determination, and ambition had propelled him to the top of society. He spent the rest of his life trying to return. Though he failed, he pointed the way for others, who were drawn by the dream that opportunity was here for anyone who dared seize it . . . Smith founded more than a colony. He gave birth to the American dream." --from Captain John Smith Captain John Smith tells the real story behind the swashbuckling character who founded the Jamestown colony, wrote the first book in English in America, and cheated death many times by a mere hairbreadth. Based on rich primary sources, including Smith's own writings and newly discovered material, this enlightening book explores Smith's early days, his forceful leadership at Jamestown that was so critical to its survival, and his efforts upon his return to England to continue settlements in America. This unique volume also reveals the truth behind Smith's relationship with Pocahontas, a tale that history has greatly distorted. Bringing to life heroic deeds and dramatic escapes as well as moments of great suffering and hardship, Captain John Smith serves as a great testament to this important historical figure.

Author : Albert Marrin
Publisher : Atheneum Books
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081453016

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Victory in the Pacific by Albert Marrin Pdf

This account begins with the devastation of Pearl Harbor and ends with the victory over Japan in 1945.

Author : John Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Bermuda Islands
ISBN : PRNC:32101075682672

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Capt. John Smith by John Smith Pdf

Author : J. A. Leo Lemay
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780820336282

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Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? by J. A. Leo Lemay Pdf

By the mid-nineteenth century, Captain John Smith, the early colonial explorer and settler, was a well-known figure in American history. The story of how, in 1607, the Powhatan princess Pocahontas saved him from execution by her tribe appeared in all the standard American histories. Numerous plays, novels, and poems were devoted to the episode. Starting in the 1860s, however, scholars began to question Smith's published accounts of the Pocahontas incident, and a controversy ensued, with Henry Adams becoming Smith's most famous detractor. Today many scholars continue to regard Smith as a vainglorious braggart who lied about his rescue. J. A. Leo Lemay offers the first full analysis of the historiography of this debate. Examining all of the primary and secondary evidence, he persuasively demonstrates that the incident did in fact occur. A tightly argued study, Did Pocahontas Save Captain John Smith? not only refutes the outright skeptics; it effectively reverses the prevailing judgment that the truth will never be known.

Author : Philip L. Barbour
Publisher : Omohundro Institute and University of North Carolina Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0807896136

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The Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631 by Philip L. Barbour Pdf

Complete Works of Captain John Smith, 1580-1631, Volume I: Volume I

Author : E. Boyd Smith
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547363347

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The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by E. Boyd Smith Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Story of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith" by E. Boyd Smith. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Charles Dudley Warner
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547425069

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Captain John Smith by Charles Dudley Warner Pdf

This is the true story of an English soldier who, after many adventures including fighting in the Crusades against the Turks, was sent to establish a colony in Virginia along with 3 ships and a large number of colonists. The settlement was called Jamestown. Many believe that Smith's exploits were highly embroidered by the man himself and that he was indeed a very unpleasant person, but this is still a very interesting slice of Early American history.

Author : R. E. Pritchard
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-07-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781526773630

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Captain John Smith, Adventurer by R. E. Pritchard Pdf

The swashbuckling life of the Elizabethan explorer and colonial governor is vividly recounted in this historical biography. Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an extraordinary life filled with danger and adventure. As a soldier, he fought the Turks in Eastern Europe, where he beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked, and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. All this before he was thirty years old. Smith was one of the founders of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. He faced considerable danger from the Native Americans as well as from competing factions within the settlement itself. In the face of all this, Smith’s leadership saved the settlement from failure.

Author : Marie Lawson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1950
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Pocahontas and Captain John Smith by Marie Lawson Pdf

Author : John Bernhard Smith
Publisher : Awnsham and John Churchill
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The True Travels, Adventures, and Observations of Captain John Smith into Europe, Asia, Africa, and America From Ann. Dom. 1593 to 1629 by John Bernhard Smith Pdf

Captain John Smith dmiral of New England, was an English soldier, explorer, and author. He was knighted for his services to Sigismund Báthory, Prince of Transylvania, and his friend Mózes Székely. He was considered to have played an important part in the establishment of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America. He was a leader of the Virginia Colony (based at Jamestown) between September 1608 and August 1609, and led an exploration along the rivers of Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay. He was the first English explorer to map the Chesapeake Bay area and New England. His books and maps were important in encouraging and supporting English colonization of the New World. He gave the name New England to the region and noted: "Here every man may be master and owner of his owne labour and land... If he have nothing but his hands, he may...by industries quickly grow rich." When Jamestown was England's first permanent settlement in the New World, Smith trained the settlers to farm and work, thus saving the colony from early devastation. He publicly stated "He that will not work, shall not eat", quoting from the Bible, 2nd Thessalonians 3:10. Harsh weather, lack of water, living in a swampy wilderness and attacks from the Powhatan Indians almost destroyed the colony. The Jamestown settlement survived and so did Smith, but he had to return to England after being injured by an accidental explosion of gunpowder in a boat.

Author : Lauran Paine
Publisher : Robert Hale
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015008194030

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Captain John Smith and the Jamestown Story by Lauran Paine Pdf

Author : W. C. Armstrong
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1859
Category : Virginia
ISBN : UVA:X000458057

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The Life and Adventures of Captain John Smith by W. C. Armstrong Pdf

Author : G. J. Cooper
Publisher : The History Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-31
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9780752467771

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Titanic Captain by G. J. Cooper Pdf

Commander Edward John Smith's career had been a remarkable example of how a man from a humble background could get far in the world. Born to a working-class family in the landlocked Staffordshire Potteries, he went to sea at the age of 17 and rose rapidly through the ranks of the merchant navy, serving first in sailing vessels and later in the new steamships of the White Star Line. By 1912, he as White Star's senior commander and regarded by many in the shipping world as the 'millionaire's captain'. In 1912, Smith was given command of the new RMS Titanic for her maiden voyage, but what should have been among the crowning moments of his long career at sea turned rapidly into a nightmare following Titanic's collision with an iceberg. In a matter of hours the supposedly unsinkable ship sank, taking over 1,500 people with her, including Captain Smith.