The Virginia Adventure: Roanoke to James Towne : An Archaeological and Historical Odyssey - Hardcover

Noel Hume, Ivor

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0394564464 ISBN 13: 9780394564463

Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1994

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Book by Hume Ivor Noel

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Drawing on current research, recent archaeological findings, and period records, letters, and journals, a study of England's earliest Virginia colonies sheds new light on the fate of the Roanoke settlement, the legend of Pocahontas, and more. 10,000 first printing.

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ive years, as writer, lecturer, and chief archaeologist at Colonial Williamsburg, Ivor Noel Hume has enlivened for us the material culture of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century America. After his warmly praised book Martin's Hundred, he now turns to the two earliest English outposts in Virginia -- Roanoke and James Towne -- and pieces together revelatory information extrapolated from the shards and postholes of excavations at these sites with contemporary accounts found in journals, letters, and official records of the period. He illuminates narratives that have a mythic status in our early history: the exploits of Sir Walter Ralegh, Captain John Smith, and Powhatan; the life and death of Pocahontas; and the disappearance of the Roanoke colony. He recounts a recent important excavation at Roanoke where he and his colleagues found the work site of a metallurgist named Joachim Gans, whose findings about the mineral wealth of Virginia helped to convince London merchants that America was a worthy risk Th

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• Verlag: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0394564464
• ISBN 13: 9780394564463
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 491