jamestown (va.)

In graphic novel format, describes the role that Captain John Smith and Pocahontas and their friendship played in the success of the Jamestown Colony.

Recounts the true story of the settlement of Jamestown in 1607, refuting commonly-held myths about the settlement's origins, founders, and influence on the development of the New World.

Presents a short study of the Jamestown colony from its beginning in 1607 to the establishment of the new capital of Williamsburg in 1699.

Provides a chronological look at the history and development of Jamestown Colony in Virginia.

Describes the creation of Jamestown and other English colonies in North America, the daily lives of and dangers faced by the colonists, the life of Pocahontas, and interactions between the colonists and Native Americans.

Describes the journey to and the founding of Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in America, from the point of view of a ten year old boy.

Provides an overview of the Jamestown settlement, describing why the English settlers came to America, what they found when they arrived, and how they adapted to their new lives.

Journal entries and writings from English colonists help chronicle the life of Pocahontas, discussing how she saved the life of Captain John Smith in 1608.

A biography of the famous American Indian princess, emphasizing her life-long adulation of John Smith and the roles she played in two very different cultures.

Pocahontas, the eleven-year-old daughter of the Powhatan chief Mamanatowic, acts with wisdom and compassion in an effort to bring about an understanding between her people and the colonists who have come to settle in Virginia in the seventeenth century. Told in the alternating voices of Pocahontas and Captain John Smith.