Jamestown: The Novel: The story of America's beginnings by Virginia Purinton Bernhard PDF

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By Virginia Purinton Bernhard

ISBN-10: 0786755741

ISBN-13: 9780786755745

In 2013 archaeologists in Jamestown, Virginia stumbled on the grave of a fourteen-year-old lady who had died there four hundred years in the past. Her bones bore the unmistakable marks of cannibalism: evidence that during the poor "Starving Time" within the wintry weather of 1609-1610, a number of the determined colonists who ate rats, mice, shoe leather-based to stick alive, additionally ate human flesh. Their tale is advised during this remarkable ancient novel. in accordance with the particular background of Virginia, this can be a story of savagery and squalor, love and betrayal, of unquenchable desire and gritty braveness. some of the characters are recognized from colonial files: John Smith and Pocahontas (the website of her well-known "rescue" of Smith has lately been discovered); the wise Powhatan, father of Pocahontas and ruler of 15,000 Indians; Temperance and George Yardley, a pair separated through a shipwreck and reunited with unexpected effects; and others who made the perilous voyage to Virginia. There a decided corporation of settlers struggled to outlive in an unexpected land. Surrounded via natives who didn't welcome them, they battled grim adversity and human frailty, deceit, and treachery to plant the 1st winning English colony within the New World.

By the time the Mayflower landed at Plymouth in 1620, English ships had already carried greater than 3 thousand humans to Jamestown, Virginia--and approximately thousand of them had died there.

Their tale is the tale of America's beginnings.

 
Virginia Bernhard is Professor Emerita of background on the collage of
St. Thomas. She is the writer of A story of 2 COLONIES: WHAT quite occurred IN VIRGINIA AND BERMUDA? (2011) and different works on early American heritage. She and her husband stay in Houston, Texas.
A advanced story of braveness, treachery, cultural clash, administrative bungling and determined choices.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

Colonial Jamestown springs from the pages. An soaking up telling that blends truth and fiction.
NEW YORK day-by-day NEWS

Combines Bernhard's services as an American historical past professor with a bright, yes prose variety to provide a wealthy story of soreness and triumph in 1600s America.
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