Savage Kingdom - The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

Four hundred years ago, a small group of Englishmen landed on the shores of Chesapeake Bay, planning to colonize the land they called ''Virginia.'' Within months, their tiny settlement faced extinction. Yet despite in-fighting, political sabotage, Indian hostility, threats from the Spanish and some of the worst weather conditions in recorded history, the colony prevailed and laid the foundation of an English-speaking America. In A Savage Kingdom, award-winning author Benjamin Woolley revisits the Jamestown colony. While general belief holds that the establishment of the colony was driven by greed and nearly ruined by incompetence, Woolley argues that the project was part of a ''heroic design,'' an idealistic mission to create a New World free of the forces that were destroying the old one. It was also an influential mission, with connections reaching from Paris to the Orinoco Delta, and from Angola to the Blue Ridge Mountains. This dramatic and unforgettable tale will forever change readers'' perceptions of the first successful English settlement in what would become the United States. Benjamin Woolley is an award-winning writer and broadcaster. He won the Arts Journalist of the Year Award in Britain and an Emmy for his commentary for the Discovery Channel''s ''Three Minutes to Impact.'' ''A swashbuckling saga of political maneuvering, storms at sea, hostile indigenes, violence and starvation ... his book is sprightly and vivid.'' - Los Angeles Times

Product details

• Authors: Benjamin Woolley, Woolley Benjamin
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 08.04.2008
• EAN: 9780060090579
• ISBN: 978-0-06-009057-9
• No. of pages: 512
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; HISTORY: United States / 20th Century, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: United States / General, HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain / 20th Century, HISTORY: Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies), HISTORY: Indigenous Peoples of the Americas, HISTORY: Europe / Great Britain / Victorian Era (1837-1901)