A Pocket History of the United States
Contributors: Jeffrey Brandon Morris (Photographer)
Edition: 8th rev. ed edition
Publisher: Washington Square Press
Published: February 1981
Language: eng
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Number of pages: 689
ISBN-13: 9780671632687
Subjects: United States - General; History - U.S.
First sentence: THE HISTORY of English settlement in America began on a beautiful April morning in 1607, when three storm-beaten ships of Captain Christopher Newport anchored near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay, sending ashore men who found "fair meadows, and goodly tall trees, with such fresh waters as almost ravished" them to see.