1607
Subtitle: Jamestown and the New World
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Published: April 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780742558373
Subjects: American history: c 1500 to c 1800; Other prose: from c 1900 -; c 1600 to c 1700; History; History - U.S; History: American; Virginia; United States - Colonial Period; United States - State & Local - South; History / General; History / United States / Colonial Period (1600-1775); 17th century; Antiquities; Frontier and pioneer life; Jamestown; Jamestown Island (Va.); Powhatan Indians
Description: "The stories in this book, drawn from the pages of the popular history magazine Colonial Williamsburg, are gathered here to commemorate the 400th anniversary of the first English settlement in North America. Written by prominent historians and journalists and lavishly illustrated with period illustrations and dramatically reconstructed scenes, 1607: Jamestown and the New World highlights: Indian life before and after 1607; the business behind Jamestown; Pocahontas's rescue of John Smith; the Starving Time and reports of cannibalism; the origins of representative government; archaeologists' rediscovery of the original fort. Here are stories of greed and heroism, of suffering and triumph. Here is the story of America's beginnings"--Back cover.