Karwoski, Gail

Sam Collier, a twelve-year-old, serves as page to John Smith during the relentless hardship experienced by the founders at the first permanent English settlement in the New World.

Tells the story of the wreck of the "Sea Venture," a ship that set out from England in 1609 to bring supplies to the struggling Jamestown Colony, and ran aground in Bermuda after springing a leak in the midst of a hurricane, and discusses the miraculous survival of all the ship's passengers who were later able to continue their journey.