A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America

Peter Firstbrook

ISBN 10: 1851689508 / ISBN 13: 9781851689507

Verlag: Oneworld Publications October 2014, 2014

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Tips of spine lightly bumped. ; 9.0 X 6.0 X 1.5 inches; 352 pages. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 426293

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Titel: A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, ...

Verlag: Oneworld Publications October 2014

Erscheinungsdatum: 2014

Einband: Hardcover

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He fought and 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. And all this happened before he was thirty years old. This is Captain John Smith’s life.

Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how in 1607 she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest – and a far more ambitious self-promoter, too. Now, in this first new major biography of Smith in decades, award-winning BBC filmmaker and author Peter Firstbrook traces the adventurer’s astonishing exploits across three continents, testing Smith’s own writings against the historical and geographical reality on the ground.

With A Man Most Driven, Firstbrook delivers a riveting, enlightening dissection of this myth-making man, England’s arrival on the world stage, and the creation of America.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor:

Peter Firstbrook is author of The Voyage of the Matthew (about the explorer John Cabot), Lost on Everest (about George Mallory), and The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family. He worked for the BBC for twenty-five years as a television producer, director and executive producer, specializing in historical documentaries. He has won over thirty international awards, including on two occasions the Royal Television Society award for best documentary. He divides his time between London and the Isle of Wight.