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book deals with one of the most dramatic and moving episodes in our history.
It tells of a band of adventurers who set out from England and landed four months later in the New World. Despite disappointments and failures that would have discouraged less gallant men, they remained to build Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in the New World. Here is the story of shipwrecked colonists who lived a Robinson Crusoe existence on the island of Bermuda until they were able to build small boats to carry them to Virginia. Here is the mystery of the "lost colony" that vanished, leaving no clue but the strange word "Croatan" carved on a tree. Here is the horror of a massacre by Indians who were angered and terrifed by Jamestown's growth. And here is the romantic story of Pocahontas, the Indian Princess who saved the life of Captain John Smith. |