New Beginnings (Direct Mail Edition): Jamestown and the Virginia Colony 1607-1699

by Daniel Rosen

Book Overview

What makes people give up their life of comfort to travel thousands of miles across the sea to an uncharted land? This is what many have wondered about the settlers who made their way from England to the Virginia Colony in the early 1600s. From their arrival in 1607, the settlers of Jamestown faced many difficult challenges including starvation, Indian aggression, deaths by disease, or even unwanted governance. Through it all, the small band of survivors...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792282779
• ISBN13: 9780792282778
• Release Date: August 2005
• Publisher: National Geographic Kids
• Length: 40 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.4" x 9.3"
• Age Range: 10 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 5 to 9