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Author: Kimberly Weinberger
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Published: 2003
Total Pages: 36
ISBN-13: 9780439561488
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA biography of Pocahontas, the Powhatan Indian woman famous for rescuing John Smith, and who was herself kidnapped and taken to live at Jamestown, where she eventually married colonist John Rolfe.
Author: David A. Price
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2007-12-18
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 030742670X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA New York Times Notable Book and aSan Jose Mercury News Top 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, approximately 105 British colonists sailed to America, seeking gold and a trade route to the Pacific. Instead, they found disease, hunger, and hostile natives. Ill prepared for such hardship, the men responded with incompetence and infighting; only the leadership of Captain John Smith averted doom for the first permanent English settlement in the New World.The Jamestown colony is one of the great survival stories of American history, and this book brings it fully to life for the first time. Drawing on extensive original documents, David A. Price paints intimate portraits of the major figures from the formidable monarch Chief Powhatan, to the resourceful but unpopular leader John Smith, to the spirited Pocahontas, who twice saved Smith’s life. He also gives a rare balanced view of relations between the settlers and the natives and debunks popular myths about the colony. This is a superb work of history, reminding us of the horrors and heroism that marked the dawning of our nation.
Author: Danielle Smith-Llera
Publisher: Capstone
Published: 2016-08
Total Pages: 33
ISBN-13: 1515702391
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Explains Powhatan history and highlights Powhatan life in modern society"--
Author: Ingri D'Aulaire
Publisher: Doubleday Books for Young Readers
Published: 1985-03-05
Total Pages: 44
ISBN-13: 9780385074544
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA simple biography of the proud Indian princess who saved the life of John Smith, married an Englishman, and went to England where she met the Queen.
Author: Camilla Townsend
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2005-09-07
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 1429930772
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCamilla Townsend's stunning new book, Pocahontas and the Powhatan Dilemma, differs from all previous biographies of Pocahontas in capturing how similar seventeenth century Native Americans were--in the way they saw, understood, and struggled to control their world---not only to the invading British but to ourselves. Neither naïve nor innocent, Indians like Pocahontas and her father, the powerful king Powhatan, confronted the vast might of the English with sophistication, diplomacy, and violence. Indeed, Pocahontas's life is a testament to the subtle intelligence that Native Americans, always aware of their material disadvantages, brought against the military power of the colonizing English. Resistance, espionage, collaboration, deception: Pocahontas's life is here shown as a road map to Native American strategies of defiance exercised in the face of overwhelming odds and in the hope for a semblance of independence worth the name. Townsend's Pocahontas emerges--as a young child on the banks of the Chesapeake, an influential noblewoman visiting a struggling Jamestown, an English gentlewoman in London--for the first time in three-dimensions; allowing us to see and sympathize with her people as never before.
Author: Libbie Hawker
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published: 2015-05-19
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781477829929
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA novel of Pocahontas and the Jamestown Colony.
Author: Joseph Bruchac
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2005-10-01
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 0547351054
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 1607, when John Smith and his "Coatmen" arrive in Powhatan to begin settling the colony of Virginia, their relations with the village's inhabitants are anything but warm. Pocahontas, the beloved daughter of the Powhatan chief, is just eleven, but this astute young girl plays a fateful, peaceful role in the destinies of two peoples. Drawing from the personal journals of John Smith, American Book Award winner Joseph Bruchac reveals an important chapter of history through the eyes of two legendary figures. Includes an afterword, a glossary, and other historical context.
Author: R. E. Pritchard
Publisher: Pen and Sword History
Published: 2020-07-30
Total Pages: 262
ISBN-13: 1526773635
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe swashbuckling life of the Elizabethan explorer and colonial governor is vividly recounted in this historical biography. Captain John Smith is best remembered for his association with Pocahontas, but this was only a small part of an extraordinary life filled with danger and adventure. As a soldier, he fought the Turks in Eastern Europe, where he beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked, and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. All this before he was thirty years old. Smith was one of the founders of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America. He faced considerable danger from the Native Americans as well as from competing factions within the settlement itself. In the face of all this, Smith’s leadership saved the settlement from failure.
Author: Susan Donnell
Publisher: Berkley
Published: 1993-02
Total Pages: 416
ISBN-13: 9780425136201
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis bestseller was written by a direct descendant of Pocahontas. The daughter of great Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas lived a traditional life, mindful of nature and the land, and viewed the arrival of the English as an opportunity to learn. Through her indomitable spirit, she bridged the gap between her world and the colonists.
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Publisher: Fulcrum Publishing
Published: 2016-11-30
Total Pages: 155
ISBN-13: 1555918670
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has been maintained and passed down from generation to generation within the Mattaponi Tribe, and the first written history of Pocahontas by her own people.
