The Best and Worst Country in the World: Perspectives on the Early Virginia Landscape

by Stephen Adams

Book Overview

From its earliest days, the Virginia landscape has elicited dramatically contradictory descriptions. The sixteenth-century poet Michael Drayton exalted the land as "earth's onely paradise," while John Smith, in his reports to England, summarized the area around Jamestown as "a miserie, a ruine, a death, a hell."

Drawing upon both familiar history and lesser-known material from deep geological time through the end of the seventeenth century, Stephen...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 081392037X
• ISBN13: 9780813920375
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 322 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher