A biography of English explorer John Smith, discussing his exploits as a mercenary in Turkey, his founding of the Jamestown settlement where his life was allegedly saved by the intervention of Pocahontas, and his later years in England.
A biography of Thomas Savage, one of the early colonists of Jamestown, Virginia, who was sent to live among the Native Americans in order to learn their language and become an interpreter.
Chronicles the life of Idina Sackville, describing how she became so widely popular during the Jazz Age, earning the love and respect of men and women around the world and becoming a symbol for the era.
In 1788, thirteen years after English convicts are shipwrecked on the magical islands of Tathenland, two twelve-year-old girls, one a native Colay, the other the child-governor of the English, set out on a journey to stop the treachery from which both peoples are suffering.
Explores immigrants in colonial America and includes information about the establishment of colonies, religion, Southern, Middle, and New England colonies, slavery and indentured servants, and government in early America.
Examines the life of sixteenth-century explorer and colonial leader John Smith, focusing on his role in establishing and governing the colony of Jamestown, and discussing his further explorations of New England.
Discusses the founding of the Jamestown colony in Virginia in 1607, and looks at how the English colonists weathered disease, starvation, winter storms, and Native American attacks to survive and thrive under the leadership of Captain John Smith.
A biography of the English explorer John Smith, providing information on his childhood, and how his explorations paved the way for colonists,describing how his ingenuity and bravery served as an example of how to survive in the New World.
