Captain John Smith: Writings (Loa #171): With Other Narratives of the Roanoke, Jamestown, and the First English Settlement of America

by John Smith and Capt. John Smith

Book Overview

One of the truly legendary figures of American history, the soldier, explorer, and colonist Captain John Smith was a vivid and prolific chronicler of the beginnings of English settlement in the New World. This Library of America volume brings together seven of his works, along with sixteeen additional narratives by other writers, that recount firsthand the tragic, harrowing, and dramatic events of the settlement of Roanoke and Jamestown.

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1598530011
• ISBN13: 9781598530018
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Library of America
• Length: 1200 Pages
• Weight: 1.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 5.3" x 8.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher