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The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown: The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
The Shipwreck That Saved Jamestown The Sea Venture Castaways and the Fate of America
Author: Lorri Glover, Daniel Blake Smith
?A rip-snortin? story of shipwreck, intrigue, horror, courage, risk, luck and will . . . gripping.??Publishers Weekly The English were latecomers to America, and their initial attempts to establish an overseas empire met with dismal failure. In 1609, another disaster set the final course of this dramatic history, when the Sea Ve...  more », the ship dispatched by London investors to rescue the starving settlers at Jamestown, collided with a ferocious hurricane and was shipwrecked off the coast of Bermuda. This riveting historical narrative describes how the 150 castaways were seduced by the island?s unexpected pleasures for almost a year and were later riven by mutinies when ordered to continue on to Virginia. Ultimately they built boats with their own hands and arrived safely in Jamestown to face the daunting task of rebuilding America?s first permanent colony.
ISBN-13: 9780805090253
ISBN-10: 0805090258
Publication Date: 7/21/2009
Pages: 336
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio CD
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