The wild shores
Subtitle: America's beginnings
By: by Tee Loftin Snell ; photos. by Walter Meayers Edwards, paintings by Louis S. Glanzman ; foreword by David Mark Griffiths ; prepared by the Special Publications Division, National Geographic Society.
Contributors: National Geographic Society (U.S.). Special Publications Division.
Publisher: National Geographic Society
Published: 1974
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 203
Subjects: America -- Discovery and exploration; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775; United States -- History -- 1783-1865
Other titles: America's beginnings.
Description: CONTENTS: The Newfound Land / Island Triumphs, Mainland Defeats 1492-1561 / Bloody Florida, Lost Roanoke 1562-1590 / Settlers for a Season 1520-1608 / Holding on In Virginia and Canada 1607-1620 / Pious Plymouth, Rowdy Manhattan 1620-1630 / Lords Brethren and Lords Calvert 1625-1647 / Struggle Over Land, Rent and Rulers 1638-1699 / Outposts in the South 1650-1775 / Missions and Fur Posts on the Pacific 1740-1841.
Notes: Bibliography: p. 202.
Includes index.