John Smith's Chesapeake voyages, 1607-1609
By: Helen C. Rountree, Wayne E. Clark, and Kent Mountford ; contributing authors, Michael B. Barber ... [et al.].
Contributors: Clark, Wayne E.; Mountford, Kent, 1938-; Barber, Michael B.; Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network.; United States. National Park Service.; Virginia. Dept. of Historic Resources.; Maryland Historical Trust.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 402
ISBN-13: 9780813926445
Subjects: Smith, John, -- 1580-1631 -- Travel -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.); Indians of North America -- Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 17th century; Explorers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Explorers -- America -- Biography; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- Description and travel; Chesapeake Bay Region (Md. and Va.) -- History -- 17th century; America -- Discovery and exploration -- English
Genres: Biography.
Notes: "Published in association with the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network and the U.S. National Park Service, Virginia Department of Historic Resources, and Maryland Historical Trust."

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Chesapeake environment in the early seventeenth century; title: The world of Algonquian-speaking peoples; title: Englishmen in the Chesapeake; title: John Smith's first voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : June 2-July 21, 1608; title: John Smith's second voyage up the Chesapeake Bay : July 24-September 7, 1608; title: The Powhatan River, becoming "King James His River," and Hampton Roads; title: The "Pamunkey" : the York River drainage; title: The farmers and fishermen of the lower Eastern Shore; title: The middle Eastern Shore : land of marsh and merchants; title: The head of the bay : the Iroquoian speakers' northwest passage; title: The Patuxent River basin : "good cheer" and "infinite kinds of fish"; title: The Potomac River : conduit and boundary; title: The Rappahannock River basin and the Piedmont peoples.