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

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Woolley Benjamin, Benjamin Woolley
• Editore: Harper Perennial USA
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 08.04.2008
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Storia > Storia dei paesi e delle regioni; Saggistica > Storia > Altro
• EAN: 9780060090579
• ISBN: 978-0-06-009057-9
• Numero di pagine: 512
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 13.5 x 20.3 x 2.1 cm
• Categorie: 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Indigenous Peoples, History of Science, Relating to indigenous peoples, Local History, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Western Europe, General and world history, History of the Americas, The Americas, 1837–1901 (Victorian period), US Northeast: New England, 1660 to 1714 (Restoration and the Later Stuart period), 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), History / American