A Voyage To Virginia In 1609
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A Voyage To Virginia In 1609
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Author : William Strachey
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2013-06-17
A Voyage To Virginia In 1609 written by William Strachey and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-17 with History categories.
To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication. The volume’s two accounts of the 1609 wreck of a Jamestown-bound ship offer a gripping sea adventure from the earliest days of American colonization, but the dramatic events’ even greater claim to fame is for serving as the inspiration for William Shakespeare’s last major work, The Tempest. William Strachey was one of six hundred passengers sailing to Jamestown as part of the largest expedition yet to Virginia. A mere week from their destination, the fleet’s flagship, Sea Venture, met a tropical storm and wrecked on one of the islands of Bermuda. Strachey’s story might have ended there, but the castaways survived on the tropical island for eleven months and—in an act of almost incomprehensible resourcefulness—used local cedarwood, along with the wreckage of their own ship, to construct two seaworthy boats and continue successfully on their voyage. Strachey’s frankness about his fellow travelers, mutinies on the island, and the wretched condition in which they finally found Jamestown kept his document from being officially published initially, but it circulated privately in London, where one of its early readers was William Shakespeare. The second narrative in this volume, by Strachey’s shipmate Silvester Jourdain, covers the same episode but includes many fascinating details that Strachey’s does not, including some that made their way into The Tempest. Presented with modern spelling and punctuation, this great maritime drama and unforgettable firsthand look at the profound struggle to colonize America offers today’s reader the raw material that inspired Shakespeare’s masterpiece.
A Voyage To Virginia In 1609
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Author : Louis Booker Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1973
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A Voyage To Virginia In 1609
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Author : Louis Booker Wright
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
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A Voyage To Virginia In 1609
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Author : William Strachey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2013
A Voyage To Virginia In 1609 written by William Strachey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with History categories.
To celebrate its fiftieth anniversary, the University of Virginia Press reissues its first-ever publication. The volume's two accounts of the 1609 wreck of a Jamestown-bound ship offer a gripping sea adventure from the earliest days of American colonization, but the dramatic events' even greater claim to fame is for serving as the inspiration for William Shakespeare's last major work, The Tempest. William Strachey was one of six hundred passengers sailing to Jamestown as part of the largest expedition yet to Virginia. A mere week from their destination, the fleet's flagship, Sea Venture, met a tropical storm and wrecked on one of the islands of Bermuda. Strachey's story might have ended there, but the castaways survived on the tropical island for eleven months and--in an act of almost incomprehensible resourcefulness--used local cedarwood, along with the wreckage of their own ship, to construct two seaworthy boats and continue successfully on their voyage. Strachey's frankness about his fellow travelers, mutinies on the island, and the wretched condition in which they finally found Jamestown kept his document from being officially published initially, but it circulated privately in London, where one of its early readers was William Shakespeare. The second narrative in this volume, by Strachey's shipmate Silvester Jourdain, covers the same episode but includes many fascinating details that Strachey's does not, including some that made their way into The Tempest. Presented with modern spelling and punctuation, this great maritime drama and unforgettable firsthand look at the profound struggle to colonize America offers today's reader the raw material that inspired Shakespeare's masterpiece.
The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 1606 1609
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Author : Philip L. Barbour
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 1606 1609 written by Philip L. Barbour and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Jamestown (Va.) categories.
The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 1606 1609
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Author : Philip L. Barbour
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1969
The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 1606 1609 written by Philip L. Barbour and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1969 with Jamestown (Va.) categories.
Sir George Yeardley And His Voyage Of 1609 1610 To Virginia In The Sea Adventure And Deliverance
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Author : Joseph Ingersoll Doran
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1914
Sir George Yeardley And His Voyage Of 1609 1610 To Virginia In The Sea Adventure And Deliverance written by Joseph Ingersoll Doran and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1914 with Governors categories.
The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 1606 1609
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Author : Philip L. Barbour
language : en
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Release Date : 2010-10
The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 1606 1609 written by Philip L. Barbour and has been published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with History categories.
In December 1606, 120 emigrants left London in three small vessels. They landed nearly five months later in Virginia and founded a settlement which they called Jamestown. Thus the first permanent English colony was established in America. During the first few years, the colony was beset by extreme hardship. The local Indians regarded the settlement as infringement of their territory and were hostile to the settlers. Famine, plague and internal dissension also took their toll. The settlers relied for survival on provisions and men brought from England. The ships travelled the long route by way of the Canaries and the Caribbean and were always in danger of attack by the Spanish. In these 2 volumes Mr Barbour has collected all the known documents relating to the Jamestown voyages during the life of the original charter. He has annotated them and translated those written in languages other than English. In his introduction he reviews the early sources, in particular books about the early history of the colony written by emigrants. This collection gives a graphic and fascinating contemporary picture of the first few years of the colony out of which the United States was destined to grow. Includes a combined list of names of the original planters up to about 1 October 1608. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1969.
The Jamestown Project
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Author : Karen Ordahl Kupperman
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30
The Jamestown Project written by Karen Ordahl Kupperman and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with History categories.
Listen to a short interview with Karen Ordahl Kupperman Host: Chris Gondek | Producer: Heron & Crane Captain John Smith's 1607 voyage to Jamestown was not his first trip abroad. He had traveled throughout Europe, been sold as a war captive in Turkey, escaped, and returned to England in time to join the Virginia Company's colonizing project. In Jamestown migrants, merchants, and soldiers who had also sailed to the distant shores of the Ottoman Empire, Africa, and Ireland in search of new beginnings encountered Indians who already possessed broad understanding of Europeans. Experience of foreign environments and cultures had sharpened survival instincts on all sides and aroused challenging questions about human nature and its potential for transformation. It is against this enlarged temporal and geographic background that Jamestown dramatically emerges in Karen Kupperman's breathtaking study. Reconfiguring the national myth of Jamestown's failure, she shows how the settlement's distinctly messy first decade actually represents a period of ferment in which individuals were learning how to make a colony work. Despite the settlers' dependence on the Chesapeake Algonquians and strained relations with their London backers, they forged a tenacious colony that survived where others had failed. Indeed, the structures and practices that evolved through trial and error in Virginia would become the model for all successful English colonies, including Plymouth. Capturing England's intoxication with a wider world through ballads, plays, and paintings, and the stark reality of Jamestown--for Indians and Europeans alike--through the words of its inhabitants as well as archeological and environmental evidence, Kupperman re-creates these formative years with astonishing detail.
The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 1606 1609
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Author : Philip L. Barbour
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1976
The Jamestown Voyages Under The First Charter 1606 1609 written by Philip L. Barbour and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1976 with Jamestown (Va.) categories.