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Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America
By (author) Benjamin Woolley
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""Brilliantly framed . . . fascinating . . . a well-told story of discovery, conquest, business, and politics."" -- Kirkus Reviews Four centuries ago, and 14 years before the Mayflower, a group of men--led by a one-armed ex-pirate, an epileptic aristocrat, a reprobate cleric and a government spy--left London aboard a fleet of three ships. Despite their shortcomings, and against the odds, they built Jamestown, a ramshackle outpost that laid the foundations of the British Empire and the United States of America. Drawing on new discoveries, neglected sources, and manuscript collections scattered across the world, Savage Kingdom challenges the textbook image of Jamestown as a mere money-making venture. It reveals a reckless, daring enterprise led by outcasts of the Old World who found themselves interlopers in a new one. An intimate story in an epic setting, it shows how the land of Pocahontas came to be drawn into a new global order.
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Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Published date | 10 Apr 2007
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Format | Hardback
Pages | 496
Dimensions | 229 x 152 x 33mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 771g
ISBN | 978-0-0600-9056-2
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BISAC | history / united states / state & local / south (al, ar, fl, ga, ky, la, ms, nc, sc, tn, va, wv)
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Originally published in Italian: L'ordine del tempo (Milan: Adelphi Edizioni, 2017).
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