A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America - Softcover

Firstbrook, Peter

 
9781780747101: A Man Most Driven: Captain John Smith, Pocahontas and the Founding of America
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1780747101 ISBN 13: 9781780747101
Verlag: Oneworld Publications, 2015

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He fought and beheaded three Turkish adversaries in duels. He was sold into slavery, then murdered his master to escape. He sailed under a pirate flag, was shipwrecked and marched to the gallows to be hanged, only to be reprieved at the eleventh hour. And all this happened before he was thirty years old. This is Captain John Smith’s life.

Everyone knows the story of Pocahontas, and how in 1607 she saved John Smith. And were it not for Smith’s leadership, the Jamestown colony would surely have failed. Yet Smith was a far more ambitious explorer and soldier of fortune than these tales suggest – and a far more ambitious self-promoter, too. With A Man Most Driven, Firstbrook delivers a riveting, enlightening dissection of this myth-making man, England’s arrival on the world stage, and the creation of America.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Peter Firstbrook is author of The Voyage of the Matthew (about the explorer John Cabot), Lost on Everest (about George Mallory), and The Obamas: The Untold Story of an African Family. He worked for the BBC for twenty-five years as a television producer, director and executive producer, specializing in historical documentaries. He divides his time between London and the Isle of Wight.

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Verlag
Oneworld Publications
Erscheinungsdatum
2015
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1780747101
ISBN 13 
9781780747101
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432
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