The English colonization of North America
Subtitle: how explorers and colonists such as Sir Walter Raleigh, John Smith, and Miles Standish helped establish England's presence in the New World
By: Dan Harvey.
Series: Exploration and discovery; Exploration and discovery (Philadelphia, Pa.)
Publisher: Mason Crest
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
Subjects: British -- America -- History -- Juvenile literature; America -- Discovery and exploration -- English -- Juvenile literature; Great Britain -- Colonies -- America -- History -- Juvenile literature; America -- History -- To 1810 -- Juvenile literature; North America -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile literature; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 -- Juvenile literature; America -- Discovery and exploration -- English; Great Britain -- Colonies; America -- History -- To 1810; United States -- History -- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Chronicles the English attempts to settle in North America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the failed colony on Roanoke Island and the more successful Jamestown settlement.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 62) and index.
Table of contents: title: What happened on Roanoke Island?; title: The early explorers; title: Jamestown; title: The great massacre of 1622; title: The Pilgrims in Massachusetts; title: The Puritans in Massachusetts.