The Jamestown Brides: The Story of England's Maids for Virginia

by Jennifer Potter

Book Overview

Jamestown, England's first real foothold in the New World, was fraught with danger -- from starvation and disease to violent skirmishes between colonists and the native populations. Mortality rates were impossibly high: Six out of seven settlers died within the first few years. How clear these and other perils were made to the fifty-six young women who left their homes and boarded ships in England in 1621, nearly fifteen years after Jamestown's founding,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190942630
• ISBN13: 9780190942632
• Release Date: June 2019
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.3"